The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 10

And he had also a nightingale which could sing as if all the beautiful melodies in the world were shut up in its little throat.

Who acts: father, nightingale · What happens: have, sing, shut up · To what, where: nightingale, beautiful melodies, little throat

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	also	also	ADV	_	6 nightingale	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nightingale	det
6	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sing	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sing	aux
9	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nightingale	acl:relcl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 shut	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 shut	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 melodies	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 melodies	det
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 melodies	amod
15	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shut	nsubj:pass
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 melodies	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shut	aux:pass
20	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sing	advcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 shut	compound:prt
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 throat	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 throat	nmod:poss
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 throat	amod
25	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shut	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 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	shut up	past · passive		all beautiful melodies in the world	grave's little throat	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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