Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 78

But instead of a book, it was a work of art contained in a casket, an artificial nightingale made to look like a living one, and covered all over with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires.

Who acts: doubt, artificial nightingale · What happens: be, contain, make, look, live, cover · To what, where: work, art, casket, artificial nightingale

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 (doubt, artificial 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	30 covered	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	5 book	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 covered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 work	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 work	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 work	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 work	det
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 book	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 art	case
12	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 work	nmod
13	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 art	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 casket	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 casket	det
16	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 contained	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nightingale	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 nightingale	det
19	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nightingale	amod
20	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 casket	appos
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 nightingale	acl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	xcomp
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 one	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 one	det
26	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 one	amod
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 covered	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 covered	cc
30	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 over	advmod
32	over	over	ADV	_	30 covered	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 diamonds	case
34	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 covered	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 rubies	punct
36	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 diamonds	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sapphires	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sapphires	cc
39	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 diamonds	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	doubt	a work		of art	tree rules
2	contain	participle		art not said here	a casket		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in casket=Location
3	make	participle		a artificial nightingale not said here			tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive	a artificial nightingale not said here			like a living one	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	live	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cover	past				instead a book; with diamonds and rubies and sapphires; over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=Theme

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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