The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 111
Three-and-thirty times it sang the same piece without being tired.
Who acts: duet · What happens: sing, be · To what, where: same piece
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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 thirty | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thirty | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sang | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sang | nsubj |
| 8 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 piece | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 piece | amod |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | obj |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 tired | case |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 tired | cop |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sang | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | duet | the same piece | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | tired 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.
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