Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 55

"My excellent little nightingale," said the courtier, "I have the great pleasure of inviting you to a court festival this evening, where you will gain imperial favor by your charming song."

Who acts: excellent little nightingale, great pleasure, you, your · What happens: say, have, invite, gain, sing · To what, where: courtier, great pleasure, you, imperial favor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (excellent little nightingale, great pleasure, you, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 nightingale	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nightingale	nmod:poss
3	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nightingale	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nightingale	amod
5	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nightingale	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 nightingale	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 courtier	det
10	courtier	courtier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pleasure	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pleasure	amod
17	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 inviting	mark
19	inviting	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 pleasure	acl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 inviting	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 festival	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 festival	det
23	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 festival	compound
24	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 inviting	obl
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 evening	det
26	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 inviting	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gain	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 gain	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 gain	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 gain	aux
31	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pleasure	parataxis
32	imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 favor	amod
33	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gain	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	37 song	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 song	nmod:poss
36	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 song	compound
37	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gain	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My excellent little nightingale	the courtier				tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	My excellent little nightingale = nightingale	the great pleasure				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
3	invite in a quote	gerund	the great pleasure not said here		you	evening	to a court festival	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	gain in a quote	future	you	imperial favor			by your charming song	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Theme
5	sing in a quote		your					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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