The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 106
‘Now they must sing together; what a duet we shall have!’
Who acts: men, duet · What happens: sing, have
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 (men, duet), 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 | _ | 5 sing | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sing | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sing | aux |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 sing | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 have | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 duet | det |
| 10 | duet | duet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | nsubj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sing | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | must | men = man | now | together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | shall | a duet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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