Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 110
"Through the forest, and in the vale, Sweetly warbles the nightingale.
Who acts: Sweetly · What happens: warble · To what, where: nightingale, vale
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweetly), 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 | _ | 4 forest | punct |
| 2 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 forest | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 forest | det |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 warbles | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 warbles | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vale | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vale | det |
| 9 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 warbles | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 vale | punct |
| 11 | Sweetly | Sweetly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 warbles | nsubj |
| 12 | warbles | warble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forest | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nightingale | det |
| 14 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 warbles | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warble in a quote | present | Sweetly | the nightingale | the vale | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nightingale=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.
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