Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 9
Then the nightingale sung himself to death.
Who acts: nightingale · What happens: sing · To what, where: nightingale, death
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightingale), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sung | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nightingale | det |
| 3 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sung | nsubj |
| 4 | sung | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 sung | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sung | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the nightingale | nightingale | death | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Topic to death=Recipient |
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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