Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 74

The whole city spoke of the wonderful bird, and when two people met, one said "nightin," and the other said "gale," and they understood what was meant, for nothing else was talked of.

Who acts: whole city, two people, one, other, people · What happens: speak, meet, say, understand, mean, talk · To what, where: nightin, gale, nothing · 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 (whole city, two people, one, other), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 city	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 city	amod
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 bird	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 met	mark
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 people	nummod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 met	nsubj
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 met	punct
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	parataxis
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 nightin	punct
19	nightin	nightin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nightin	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 nightin	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 other	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 gale	punct
27	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gale	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 gale	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 understood	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 understood	nsubj
32	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	conj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 meant	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 meant	aux:pass
35	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 understood	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 talked	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 talked	mark
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 talked	nsubj:pass
39	else	else	ADV	_	38 nothing	advmod
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 talked	aux:pass
41	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 meant	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	41 talked	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the whole city		of the wonderful bird	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	meet	past	two people			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	one	nightin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nightin=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	the other	gale		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gale=Topic
5	understand	past	people			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	mean	past · passive				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
7	talk	past · passive		nothing		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient

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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