Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 88

"What strange conduct," said the emperor, when her flight had been discovered; and all the courtiers blamed her, and said she was a very ungrateful creature.

Who acts: strange conduct, courtiers, nightingale · What happens: conduct, say, discover, blame, be · To what, where: emperor, flight, nightingale, ungrateful creature · 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 (strange conduct, courtiers, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 conduct	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 conduct	nsubj
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conduct	amod
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 conduct	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 conduct	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 emperor	det
9	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 discovered	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 discovered	advmod
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 flight	nmod:poss
13	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 discovered	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 discovered	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 discovered	aux:pass
16	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 emperor	acl:relcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 blamed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 blamed	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 courtiers	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 courtiers	det
21	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 blamed	nsubj
22	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 blamed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 blamed	conj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 creature	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 creature	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 creature	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 ungrateful	advmod
31	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 creature	amod
32	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	conduct in a quote				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	strange conduct	the emperor	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic
3	discover	past · perfect · passive		nightingale's flight	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	blame	past	all courtiers	nightingale	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	all courtiers not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	nightingale	a ungrateful creature	tree rules

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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