The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 107

And so they sang together, but their voices did not blend, for the real Nightingale sang in her way and the clockwork bird sang waltzes.

Who acts: men, voices, real Nightingale, clockwork bird · What happens: sing, not blend · To what, where: way, waltzes

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, voices, real Nightingale, clockwork 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sang	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 sang	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 sang	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blend	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 blend	cc
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 voices	nmod:poss
9	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 blend	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 blend	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 blend	advmod
12	blend	blend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sang	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sang	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 sang	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Nightingale	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Nightingale	amod
17	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sang	nsubj
18	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 blend	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sang	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sang	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bird	det
24	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bird	compound
25	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sang	nsubj
26	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sang	conj
27	waltzes	waltz	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sang	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	men = man			together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not blend	past · do-support	men's voices				vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	sing speech: express	past	the real Nightingale		voice's way		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location
4	sing speech: express	past	the clockwork bird	waltzes			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location waltz=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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