Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 56
"My song sounds best in the green wood," said the bird; but still she came willingly when she heard the emperor's wish.
Who acts: song, bird, My, emperor · What happens: sound, say, come, hear, sing, wish · To what, where: green wood, wish · 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 (song, bird, My, emperor), 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 | _ | 4 sounds | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 song | nmod:poss |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 sounds | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wood | amod |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounds | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounds | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 heard | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 came | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 emperor | det |
| 25 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wish | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 emperor | case |
| 27 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound in a quote | present | My song | the green wood | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | song | still | willingly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | hear | past | song | the emperor's wish | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wish=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sing in a quote | My | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | wish | the emperor | nom wish «feeling 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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