Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 93
"This is exactly what we think," they all replied, and then the music-master received permission to exhibit the bird to the people on the following Sunday, and the emperor commanded that they should be present to hear it sing.
Who acts: This, we, waltzes, music master, emperor, permission · What happens: be, think, reply, receive, exhibit, follow · To what, where: permission, bird, people · 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 (This, we, waltzes, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 they | det |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 think | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 received | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 received | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 received | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 master | det |
| 17 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 master | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 music | punct |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | nsubj |
| 20 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | parataxis |
| 21 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 exhibit | mark |
| 23 | exhibit | exhibit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 permission | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bird | det |
| 25 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 exhibit | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 people | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 exhibit | obl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 Sunday | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Sunday | det |
| 31 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 Sunday | amod |
| 32 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 people | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 commanded | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 commanded | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 emperor | det |
| 36 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 commanded | nsubj |
| 37 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 received | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 present | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 present | nsubj |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 present | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 present | cop |
| 42 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 commanded | ccomp |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 hear | mark |
| 44 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 present | advcl |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 hear | obj |
| 46 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 hear | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | we | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | participle | waltzes = waltz | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | receive | past | the music master | permission | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | |||
| 5 | exhibit | to-infinitive | the music master not said here | the bird | the people on the following Sunday | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to people=Recipient | |||
| 6 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | command | past | the emperor | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | should | waltzes = waltz | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | hear | to-infinitive | waltzes = waltz not said here | permission | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | sing speech: express | infinitive | permission not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/93/