The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 10

‘How beautiful it is!’ he said; but he had to attend to his work, and forgot about the bird.

Who acts: fisherman · What happens: be, say, have, attend, forget, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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	_	5 is	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 beautiful	advmod
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 is	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beautiful	nsubj
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 attend	mark
15	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 work	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 work	nmod:poss
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attend	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forgot	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 forgot	cc
21	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 bird	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bird	det
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forgot	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	be	present			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	fisherman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	fisherman		tree rules
4	attend	to-infinitive	fisherman not said here	to fisherman's work	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to work=Theme
5	forget	past	fisherman not said here	about the bird	tree rules
6	work		fisherman		nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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