Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 84

"That is not a fault," said the music-master, "it is quite perfect to my taste," so then it had to sing alone, and was as successful as the real bird; besides, it was so much prettier to look at, for it sparkled like bracelets and breast-pins.

Who acts: That, music master, master, my · What happens: not be, say, be, have, sing, look · To what, where: fault, master · 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 (That, music master, master, my), 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	_	6 fault	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 fault	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fault	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fault	det
6	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fault	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fault	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 master	det
11	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 master	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 music	punct
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 perfect	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 perfect	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 perfect	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 perfect	cop
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 perfect	advmod
19	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 taste	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 taste	nmod:poss
22	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 perfect	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 perfect	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 had	advmod
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 had	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sing	mark
30	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	alone	alone	ADV	_	30 sing	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 successful	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 successful	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 successful	cop
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 successful	advmod
36	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 had	parataxis
37	as	as	ADP	_	40 bird	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bird	det
39	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bird	amod
40	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 successful	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 besides	punct
42	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 successful	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 prettier	punct
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 prettier	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 prettier	cop
46	so	so	ADV	_	47 much	advmod
47	much	much	ADV	_	48 prettier	advmod
48	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 besides	parataxis
49	to	to	PART	_	50 look	mark
50	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 prettier	acl
51	at	at	ADP	_	50 look	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 sparkled	punct
53	for	for	SCONJ	_	55 sparkled	mark
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 sparkled	nsubj:pass
55	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 prettier	conj
56	like	like	ADP	_	57 bracelets	case
57	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 sparkled	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 pins	cc
59	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 pins	compound
60	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 breast	punct
61	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 bracelets	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	That	a fault			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the music master				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	master			to my taste; perfect property	tree rules
4	have	past	master		then		tree rules
5	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	master not said here			alone property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past				as the real bird; successful property	tree rules
7	is	past	master			pretty property	tree rules
8	look	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	sparkle	participle · passive		master		like bracelets and breast pins	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
10	taste in a quote		my				nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=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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