The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 11
But when she sang the next night and the fisherman came there again, he said the same thing, ‘How beautiful it is!’
Who acts: bird, fisherman, much · What happens: sing, come, say, be · To what, where: same thing · 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 (bird, fisherman, much), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 sang | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fisherman | det |
| 10 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sang | conj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beautiful | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 beautiful | punct |
| 22 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beautiful | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 beautiful | cop |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | bird | night | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the fisherman | there | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | fisherman | the same thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | present | much | beautiful property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/11/