The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 118

And the bandmaster praised the bird tremendously; yes, he assured them it was better than a real nightingale, not only because of its beautiful plumage and diamonds, but inside as well.

Who acts: bandmaster · What happens: praise, assure, be · To what, where: bird, people

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 (bandmaster), 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	_	4 praised	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bandmaster	det
3	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 praised	nsubj
4	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 praised	obj
7	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	_	4 praised	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 assured	punct
9	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 assured	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 yes	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 assured	nsubj
12	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 praised	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 assured	iobj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 better	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 better	cop
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 assured	ccomp
17	than	than	ADP	_	20 nightingale	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 nightingale	det
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nightingale	amod
20	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 better	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 plumage	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 plumage	advmod
23	only	only	ADV	_	28 plumage	advmod
24	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	28 plumage	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 because	fixed
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 plumage	nmod:poss
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plumage	amod
28	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nightingale	appos
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 diamonds	cc
30	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 plumage	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 inside	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 inside	cc
33	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 praised	advmod
34	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	33 inside	advmod
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 as	fixed
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 praised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	praise	past	the bandmaster	the bird		inside, tremendously property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	assure	past	bandmaster		people		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is	past	bandmaster not said here			than a real nightingale; good 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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