Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 82
"Now they must sing together," said the court, "and what a duet it will be."
Who acts: servants, court · What happens: sing, say · 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 (servants, court), 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 sing | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sing | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sing | aux |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 sing | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 court | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 court | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 what | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 duet | det |
| 17 | duet | duet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 what | nsubj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 be | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 be | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | must | servants = servant | now | together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the court | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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