The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 116

‘But we have still the best bird!’ they said and the artificial bird had to sing again, and that was the thirty-fourth time they had heard the same piece.

Who acts: we, people, artificial bird, that · What happens: have, say, sing, be, hear · To what, where: best bird, fourth time, same 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 (we, people, artificial bird, that), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
5	still	still	ADV	_	8 bird	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
15	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bird	amod
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sing	mark
19	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 sing	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 time	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 time	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 time	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 time	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
26	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 fourth	nummod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 thirty	punct
28	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heard	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 heard	aux
32	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 time	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 piece	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 piece	amod
35	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heard	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	we	the best bird		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	the artificial bird			tree rules
4	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	the artificial bird not said here		again	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	that	the fourth time		tree rules
6	hear	past · perfect	people	the same piece		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus

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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