Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 90

But the music-master praised the bird in the highest degree, and even asserted that it was better than a real nightingale, not only in its dress and the beautiful diamonds, but also in its musical power. "

Who acts: music master · What happens: praise, assert, be · To what, where: bird, highest degree

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 (music master), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 praised	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 master	det
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 master	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 music	punct
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 praised	nsubj
6	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 praised	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 degree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 degree	det
11	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 degree	amod
12	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 praised	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asserted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asserted	cc
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 asserted	advmod
16	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 praised	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 better	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 better	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 better	cop
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 asserted	ccomp
21	than	than	ADP	_	24 nightingale	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 nightingale	det
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nightingale	amod
24	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 better	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dress	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 dress	advmod
27	only	only	ADV	_	30 dress	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 dress	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 dress	nmod:poss
30	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nightingale	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 diamonds	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 diamonds	det
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 diamonds	amod
34	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dress	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 power	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 power	cc
37	also	also	ADV	_	41 power	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 power	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 power	nmod:poss
40	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 power	amod
41	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 praised	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 power	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 power	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	praise	past	the music master	the bird	the highest degree		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	assert	past	the music master not said here				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the music master not said here			than a real nightingale and flight's dress and the beautiful diamonds; good 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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