Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 80
Round its neck hung a piece of ribbon, on which was written "The Emperor of China's nightingale is poor compared with that of the Emperor of Japan's."
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: hang, write, be, compare · To what, where: piece
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 (Emperor), 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 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 3 neck | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 neck | nmod:poss |
| 3 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obl |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ribbon | case |
| 8 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 written | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 written | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 written | aux:pass |
| 13 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hung | advcl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 poor | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Emperor | det |
| 16 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 poor | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 nightingale | case |
| 18 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 nightingale | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 China | case |
| 20 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Emperor | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 poor | cop |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 written | conj |
| 23 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 poor | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 compared | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Emperor | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Emperor | det |
| 28 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 compared | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Japan | case |
| 30 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Emperor | nmod |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Emperor | case |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | a piece of ribbon | round gold's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Emperor of China's nightingale | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | compare in a quote | participle | the Emperor of China's nightingale not said here | with that; of the Emperor of Japan | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with that=Co-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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