Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 99
So a year passed, and the emperor, the court, and all the other Chinese knew every little turn in the artificial bird's song; and for that same reason it pleased them better.
Who acts: other Chinese, artificial bird · What happens: pass, know, sing · To what, where: emperor, little turn, song
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 (other Chinese, artificial bird), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 emperor | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 emperor | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 court | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 emperor | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knew | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 knew | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Chinese | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Chinese | amod |
| 17 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 turn | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 turn | amod |
| 21 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 song | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bird | det |
| 24 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bird | amod |
| 25 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 song | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 bird | case |
| 27 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 pleased | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pleased | cc |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 reason | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 reason | det |
| 32 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 reason | amod |
| 33 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pleased | obl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 pleased | nsubj |
| 35 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passed | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 pleased | obl |
| 37 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 pleased | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | the emperor | year | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme emperor=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the other Chinese | every little turn | the artificial bird's song | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sing | the artificial bird | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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