Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 9

Sometimes, when they went at night to spread their nets, they would hear her sing, and say, "Oh, is not that beautiful?"

Who acts: trees, that · What happens: go, spread, hear, say, not be · To what, where: nets, sing · 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 (trees, that), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 hear	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 went	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hear	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 spread	mark
9	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nets	nmod:poss
11	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spread	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hear	aux
15	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sing	nmod:poss
17	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 say	cc
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hear	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 beautiful	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 beautiful	punct
23	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	28 beautiful	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Oh	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 beautiful	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 beautiful	advmod
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 beautiful	nsubj
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 say	ccomp
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	trees = tree		night		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spread	to-infinitive	trees = tree not said here	trees's nets			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location net=Theme
3	hear	would	trees = tree	nightingale's sing		sometimes property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sing=Stimulus
4	say speech: ask	infinitive	trees = tree not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is in a quote	present	that			beautiful 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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