Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 7

He had also a nightingale, which could sing as if every sweet melody was in its throat.

Who acts: father, nightingale, sweet melody · What happens: have, sing, be · To what, where: nightingale, throat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, nightingale, sweet melody), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 nightingale	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nightingale	det
5	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sing	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sing	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sing	aux
9	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nightingale	acl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 throat	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 throat	mark
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 melody	det
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 melody	amod
14	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throat	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 throat	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 throat	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 throat	nmod:poss
18	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sing	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	father	a nightingale		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightingale=Patient
2	sing speech: express	could	a nightingale			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	every sweet melody		melody's throat	tree rules

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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