The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 119

‘For see, my Lords and Ladies and your Imperial Majesty, with the real Nightingale one can never tell what will come out, but all is known about the artificial bird!

Who acts: Lords · What happens: not tell, come out, know · To what, where: all · 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 (Lords), 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	_	21 tell	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	3 see	case
3	see	see	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Lords	nmod:poss
6	Lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tell	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Ladies	cc
8	Ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Lords	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Majesty	cc
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Majesty	nmod:poss
11	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Majesty	amod
12	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Lords	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 one	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
17	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 one	compound
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Lords	conj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 tell	advmod
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 come	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tell	ccomp
25	out	out	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 known	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 known	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 known	nsubj:pass
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 known	aux:pass
30	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 tell	advcl
31	about	about	ADP	_	34 bird	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bird	det
33	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bird	amod
34	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 known	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	my Lords and Ladies and your Imperial Majesty and the real Nightingale one		for see	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come out	future			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	know	present · passive		all	about the artificial bird	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=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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