The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 115
And all the Court scolded, and said that the Nightingale was very ungrateful.
Who acts: Court, Nightingale · What happens: scold, say, be · 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 (Court, Nightingale), 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 | _ | 5 scolded | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Court | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Court | det |
| 4 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scolded | nsubj |
| 5 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scolded | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 ungrateful | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Nightingale | det |
| 11 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ungrateful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ungrateful | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 ungrateful | advmod |
| 14 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past | all Court | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | all Court not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Nightingale | ungrateful 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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