The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 123
And they heard it, and they were as pleased as if they had been intoxicated with tea, after the Chinese fashion, and they all said ‘Oh!’ and held up their forefingers and nodded time.
Who acts: people · What happens: hear, be, intoxicate, say, hold up, nod · To what, where: permission, people, forefingers · 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), 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 | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleased | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pleased | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 intoxicated | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 intoxicated | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 intoxicated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 intoxicated | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 intoxicated | aux:pass |
| 16 | intoxicated | intoxicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pleased | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tea | case |
| 18 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 intoxicated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fashion | punct |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 fashion | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fashion | det |
| 22 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fashion | amod |
| 23 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 intoxicated | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | nsubj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 they | det |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 29 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 Oh | punct |
| 30 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 28 said | obj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Oh | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 Oh | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 held | cc |
| 34 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 held | compound:prt |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 forefingers | nmod:poss |
| 37 | forefingers | forefinger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 held | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 nodded | cc |
| 39 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 held | conj |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 nodded | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | people | permission | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | people | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | intoxicate | past · perfect · passive | people | after the Chinese fashion | with tea | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oh=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hold up | past | people not said here | people's forefingers | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot forefinger=Theme | ||||
| 6 | nod | past | people not said here | time | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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