The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 124

But the poor fishermen who had heard the real Nightingale said: ‘This one sings well enough, the tunes glide out; but there is something wanting--I don’t know what!’

Who acts: poor fishermen, one, tunes, I · What happens: hear, say, sing, glide out, want, not know · To what, where: real Nightingale · 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 (poor fishermen, one, tunes, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fishermen	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fishermen	amod
4	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 heard	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	aux
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 fishermen	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Nightingale	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Nightingale	amod
10	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 sings	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 sings	punct
14	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sings	nsubj
16	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 sings	advmod
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 sings	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 glide	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tunes	det
21	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 glide	nsubj
22	glide	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sings	conj
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 glide	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 is	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 is	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 is	expl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 wanting	aux
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 is	nsubj
29	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 know	nsubj
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 know	aux
33	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 know	advmod
34	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 know	obj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	the poor fishermen	the real Nightingale		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the poor fishermen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sing speech: express	present	this one		enough, well property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	glide out	present	the tunes		out property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	want	present · progressive				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	not know	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=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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