The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 103

When it was wound up, it could sing the piece the real bird sang, and moved its tail up and down, and glittered with silver and gold.

Who acts: parcel, real bird · What happens: woun up, sing, move, glitter · To what, where: parcel, piece, tail

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 (parcel, real bird), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wound	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wound	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wound	aux:pass
4	wound	woun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sing	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 wound	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wound	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sing	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sing	aux
9	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 piece	det
11	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sing	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bird	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sang	nsubj
15	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 piece	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 moved	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 moved	cc
18	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sing	conj
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tail	nmod:poss
20	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 moved	obj
21	up	up	ADV	_	18 moved	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 down	cc
23	down	down	ADV	_	21 up	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 glittered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 glittered	cc
26	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 sing	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 silver	case
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 glittered	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gold	cc
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 silver	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	woun up	past · passive		parcel		tree rules
2	sing speech: express	could	parcel	the piece		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	the real bird	the piece not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme
4	move	past	parcel not said here	parcel's tail		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
5	glitter	participle	parcel not said here		with silver and gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with silver=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 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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