Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 87
No one had noticed her when she flew out at the open window, back to her own green woods.
Who acts: one, nightingale · What happens: notice, fly out · To what, where: nightingale, open window
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 (one, nightingale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7598): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | aux |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 noticed | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 flew | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 flew | compound:prt |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 window | amod |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 back | punct |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 woods | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 woods | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woods | amod |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woods | amod |
| 20 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 back | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past · perfect | no one | nightingale | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer her=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fly out | past | nightingale | the open window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at window=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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