The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 105

‘This is magnificent!’ they all said, and the man who had brought the clockwork bird received on the spot the title of ‘Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale.’

Who acts: This, children · What happens: be, say, bring, receive, title · To what, where: man, clockwork bird, spot, Bringer · 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 (This, children), 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	_	4 magnificent	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 magnificent	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 magnificent	cop
4	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 magnificent	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 magnificent	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 said	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	nsubj:pass
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 brought	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brought	aux
16	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
18	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bird	compound
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obj
20	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 bird	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 spot	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spot	det
23	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 received	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 title	det
25	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spot	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Bringer	case
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Bringer	punct
28	Bringer	bringer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 title	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 Nightingale	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Nightingale	det
31	Imperial	Imperial	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 First	compound
32	First	First	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 Nightingale	amod
33	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Bringer	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	This			magnificent property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	children = child				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring	past · perfect · passive		the man			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination bird=Theme
4	receive	participle		the clockwork bird not said here	the spot the title of Bringer of the First Nightingale		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location
5	title			Bringer of the First Nightingale			nom title «communication transitive»: of=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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