The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 122
They should hear it sing, commanded the Emperor.
Who acts: people, permission · What happens: hear, sing, command · To what, where: permission, Emperor · 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 (people, permission), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hear | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 commanded | punct |
| 7 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Emperor | det |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 commanded | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | should | people | permission | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | infinitive | permission not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | command | past | people not said here | the Emperor | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme |
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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