Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 89

"But we have the best bird after all," said one, and then they would have the bird sing again, although it was the thirty-fourth time they had listened to the same piece, and even then they had not learnt it, for it was rather difficult.

Who acts: we, courtier, bird, flight · What happens: have, say, sing, be, listen, not learn · To what, where: best bird, one, bird, fourth time, flight · 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 (we, courtier, bird, flight), 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 have	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bird	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 have	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	xcomp
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 sing	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 time	punct
25	although	although	SCONJ	_	32 time	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 time	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 time	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 time	det
29	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 fourth	nummod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 thirty	punct
31	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sing	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 listened	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 listened	aux
35	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 time	acl:relcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 piece	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 piece	det
38	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 piece	amod
39	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 listened	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 learnt	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 learnt	cc
42	even	even	ADV	_	43 then	advmod
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 learnt	advmod
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 learnt	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 learnt	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 learnt	advmod
47	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	conj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 learnt	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 difficult	punct
50	for	for	SCONJ	_	54 difficult	mark
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 difficult	expl
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 difficult	cop
53	rather	rather	ADV	_	54 difficult	advmod
54	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 learnt	parataxis
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	we	the best bird	after all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past		one			tree rules
3	have	would	courtier	the bird	then		tree rules
4	sing speech: express	infinitive	the bird not said here		again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	flight	the fourth time			tree rules
6	listen	past · perfect	courtier	the fourth time not said here		to the same piece	tree rules
7	not learn	past · perfect	courtier	flight	then		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
8	is	past				difficult property	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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