Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 91

For you must perceive, my chief lord and emperor, that with a real nightingale we can never tell what is going to be sung, but with this bird everything is settled.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: perceive, not tell, go, sing, settle · To what, where: chief lord, everything · 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 (you, we), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 perceive	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 perceive	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 perceive	aux
4	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 perceive	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lord	nmod:poss
7	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lord	amod
8	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceive	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 emperor	cc
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lord	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nightingale	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 nightingale	nsubj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 nightingale	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 nightingale	det
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nightingale	amod
16	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lord	conj
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 tell	advmod
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 nightingale	parataxis
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 going	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 tell	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	26 sung	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 sung	aux:pass
26	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 going	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 settled	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 settled	cc
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 everything	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 everything	det
31	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 everything	compound
32	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	34 settled	nsubj:pass
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 settled	aux:pass
34	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 perceive	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perceive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	perceive	must	you	my chief lord and emperor and a real nightingale	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus
2	not tell speech: assert	can	we		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	present · progressive			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sing speech: express	to-infinitive · passive			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»
5	settle	present · passive		everything	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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