The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 100
One day the Emperor received a large parcel on which was written ‘The Nightingale.’
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: receive, write · To what, where: large parcel
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 (Emperor), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Emperor | det |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 received | nsubj |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 parcel | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 parcel | amod |
| 8 | parcel | parcel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 written | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 written | aux:pass |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 parcel | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 15 Nightingale | case |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Nightingale | det |
| 15 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 written | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Emperor | a large parcel | day | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parcel=Theme | |||
| 2 | write | past · passive | a large parcel | ‘ the Nightingale | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination |
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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