Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 70

In fact the nightingale's visit was most successful.

Who acts: visit, nightingale · What happens: be, visit · To what, where: fact

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 (visit, nightingale), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 successful	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nightingale	det
4	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visit	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 nightingale	case
6	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 successful	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 successful	cop
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 successful	advmod
9	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 successful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the nightingale's visit			fact		successful property	tree rules
2	visit		the nightingale						nom visit «act transitive»: 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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