Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 83
But they did not get on well, for the real nightingale sang in its own natural way, but the artificial bird sang only waltzes.
Who acts: servants, real nightingale, artificial bird · What happens: not get, sing, waltz · To what, where: own natural way · 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, real nightingale, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 on | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sang | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 sang | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nightingale | det |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nightingale | amod |
| 12 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sang | nsubj |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 17 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sang | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sang | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 sang | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bird | det |
| 22 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bird | amod |
| 23 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sang | nsubj |
| 24 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sang | conj |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 waltzes | advmod |
| 26 | waltzes | waltz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sang | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | past · do-support | servants = servant | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the real nightingale | duet's own natural way | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the artificial bird | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | waltz | present | vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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