The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 121

‘That’s just what we think!’ said everyone; and the bandmaster received permission to show the bird to the people the next Sunday.

Who acts: That, we, everyone, bandmaster · What happens: be, think, say, receive, show · To what, where: permission, bird, people · 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 (That, we, everyone, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 said	obj
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 received	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 received	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bandmaster	det
15	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 received	nsubj
16	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
17	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 received	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 show	mark
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 received	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 show	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 people	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 show	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Sunday	det
26	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Sunday	amod
27	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 people	appos
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	That			tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	we			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	everyone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	receive	past	the bandmaster	permission		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme
5	show	to-infinitive	the bandmaster not said here	the bird	the people	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Topic to people=Recipient

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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