Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 85

Three and thirty times did it sing the same tunes without being tired; the people would gladly have heard it again, but the emperor said the living nightingale ought to sing something.

Who acts: taste, people, emperor, living nightingale · What happens: sing, be, hear, say · To what, where: same tunes, taste, something · 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 (taste, people, emperor, living nightingale), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 thirty	cc
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Three	conj
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sing	obl:unmarked
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sing	aux
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sing	nsubj
7	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tunes	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tunes	amod
10	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sing	obj
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 tired	case
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 tired	cop
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sing	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 heard	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	aux
18	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	20 heard	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 heard	aux
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sing	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	obj
22	again	again	ADV	_	20 heard	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 emperor	det
26	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 nightingale	det
29	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nightingale	amod
30	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sing	nsubj
31	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sing	aux
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sing	mark
33	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
34	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 sing	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · do-support	taste	the same tunes	time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme
2	is	gerund				tired property	tree rules
3	hear	would · perfect	the people	taste	again	gladly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	the emperor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sing speech: express	ought	the living nightingale	something			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=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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