Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 63
All were in full dress, and every eye was turned to the little gray bird when the emperor nodded to her to begin.
Who acts: All, emperor · What happens: be, turn, nod, begin · To what, where: full dress, eye, maid
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 (All, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 dress | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dress | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 dress | case |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dress | amod |
| 5 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 eye | det |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | aux:pass |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dress | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bird | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bird | amod |
| 15 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bird | amod |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 nodded | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 emperor | det |
| 19 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nodded | nsubj |
| 20 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 nodded | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 begin | mark |
| 24 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 nodded | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | All | full dress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | every eye | to the little gray bird result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme to bird=Result | ||||
| 3 | nod | past | the emperor | maid | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | begin | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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