Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 68

"That singing is a lovely gift;" said the ladies of the court to each other; and then they took water in their mouths to make them utter the gurgling sounds of the nightingale when they spoke to any one, so that they might fancy themselves nightingales.

Who acts: singing, lovely gift, tears, gurgling sounds · What happens: be, say, take, make, utter, speak · To what, where: lovely gift, ladies, water, mouths, tears, one · 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 (singing, lovely gift, tears, gurgling sounds), 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	_	7 gift	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 singing	det
3	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gift	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gift	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gift	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gift	amod
7	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 gift	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 gift	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ladies	det
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 court	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 court	det
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ladies	nmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 each	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 court	nmod
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 each	fixed
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 took	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 mouths	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouths	nmod:poss
27	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 took	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 took	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 make	obj
31	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 make	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sounds	det
33	gurgling	gurgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sounds	compound
34	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 utter	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 nightingale	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 nightingale	det
37	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sounds	nmod
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 spoke	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 spoke	nsubj
40	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 nightingale	acl:relcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 one	case
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 one	det
43	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spoke	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fancy	punct
45	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	49 fancy	mark
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 so	fixed
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fancy	nsubj
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 fancy	aux
49	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 took	parataxis
50	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 fancy	obj
51	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 fancy	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that singing	a lovely gift				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a lovely gift	the ladies of the court to each				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lady=Topic
3	take	past	tears = tear	water		tears's mouths	then	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Value in mouth=Location
4	make	to-infinitive	tears = tear not said here	tears = tear				tree rules
5	utter speech: other	infinitive	the gurgling sounds of the nightingale					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	speak speech: other	past	tears = tear		any one			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Agent
7	fancy	might	tears = tear	tears = tear				tree rules

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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