The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 126
'And how is the nightingale singing?
Who acts: nightingale · What happens: sing
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 singing | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 singing | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 singing | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 singing | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nightingale | det |
| 6 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 singing | nsubj |
| 7 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 singing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present · progressive | the nightingale | 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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