The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 112

People would like to have heard it again, but the Emperor thought that the living Nightingale should sing now--but where was she?

Who acts: People, Emperor, living · What happens: like, hear, think, sing, be · To what, where: piece · 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 (People, Emperor, living), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 like	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 heard	mark
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	aux
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 like	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Emperor	det
12	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 sing	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 living	det
16	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sing	nsubj
17	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 living	appos
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sing	aux
19	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 sing	advmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 where	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 where	cc
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 like	conj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 where	cop
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 where	nsubj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	like	would	People				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive · perfect	People not said here	piece	again		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	past	the Emperor				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	sing speech: express	should	the living		now		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	living			where 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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