Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 81
"This is very beautiful," exclaimed all who saw it, and he who had brought the artificial bird received the title of "Imperial nightingale-bringer-in-chief."
Who acts: This, artificial bird · What happens: be, exclaim, see, bring, receive, title · To what, where: all, piece, emperor, title, Imperial chief · 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 (This, artificial bird), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | parataxis |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 exclaimed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 20 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bird | amod |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 received | nsubj |
| 22 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 title | det |
| 24 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 received | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 chief | case |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 chief | punct |
| 27 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 chief | amod |
| 28 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bringer | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 nightingale | punct |
| 30 | bringer | bringer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 chief | nsubj |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 chief | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 chief | case |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 in | punct |
| 34 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 title | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | This | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | all | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent all=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | past | piece | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | emperor | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | receive | past | the artificial bird | the title of Imperial chief | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme | ||||
| 6 | title | Imperial chief | nom title «communication transitive»: of=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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