The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 104
Round its neck was a little collar on which was written, ‘The Nightingale of the Emperor of Japan is nothing compared to that of the Emperor of China.’
Who acts: Nightingale · What happens: be, write, compare · To what, where: little collar, nothing
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 (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 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 3 neck | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 neck | nmod:poss |
| 3 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 collar | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 collar | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 collar | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 collar | amod |
| 7 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 written | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 written | aux:pass |
| 11 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 collar | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nothing | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 nothing | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Nightingale | det |
| 15 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 nothing | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Emperor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Emperor | det |
| 18 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Nightingale | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Japan | case |
| 20 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Emperor | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 nothing | cop |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 collar | conj |
| 23 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 nothing | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 compared | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Emperor | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Emperor | det |
| 28 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 compared | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 China | case |
| 30 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Emperor | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 collar | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 collar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a little collar | round gold's neck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | a little collar | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Nightingale of the Emperor of Japan | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | compare | participle | of the Emperor of China | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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