Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 8

In one of these trees lived a nightingale, who sang so beautifully that even the poor fishermen, who had so many other things to do, would stop and listen.

Who acts: trees, nightingale, poor fishermen · What happens: live, sing, have, do, stop, listen · To what, where: nightingale, many other things

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 (trees, nightingale, poor fishermen), 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 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lived	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nightingale	det
8	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sang	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sang	nsubj
11	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nightingale	acl:relcl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 beautifully	advmod
13	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	11 sang	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 stop	mark
15	even	even	ADV	_	18 fishermen	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fishermen	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fishermen	amod
18	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stop	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fishermen	acl:relcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 many	advmod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 things	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fishermen	punct
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stop	aux
30	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sang	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 listen	cc
32	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 stop	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	this trees	a nightingale	in one	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme nightingale=Location
2	sing speech: express	past	a nightingale		beautifully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	have	past	the poor fishermen	many other things		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	the poor fishermen not said here	many other things not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stop	would	the poor fishermen			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	listen	infinitive	the poor fishermen not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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