The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 101

‘Here is another new book about our famous bird!’ said the Emperor.

Who acts: new book, Emperor · What happens: be, say · 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 (new book, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 said	parataxis
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 book	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 book	amod
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 bird	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bird	nmod:poss
9	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Emperor	det
15	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	another new book about our famous bird					here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Emperor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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