The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 108

‘It is not its fault!’ said the bandmaster; ‘it keeps very good time and is quite after my style!’

Who acts: duet · What happens: not be, say, keep, be · To what, where: fault, bandmaster · 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 (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	_	6 fault	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fault	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fault	advmod
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fault	nmod:poss
6	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 fault	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 fault	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bandmaster	det
11	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 keeps	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 keeps	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keeps	nsubj
15	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 style	advcl
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 good	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keeps	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 keeps	cc
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 style	cop
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 style	advmod
22	after	after	ADP	_	24 style	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 style	nmod:poss
24	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 style	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 style	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not is a	present	duet	duet's fault		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the bandmaster		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bandmaster=Topic
3	keep	present	duet		time	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present			after my style	tree rules

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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