The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 126
The artificial bird was put on silken cushions by the Emperor’s bed, all the presents which it received, gold and precious stones, lay round it, and it was given the title of Imperial Night-singer, First from the left.
Who acts: presents · What happens: put, receive, lay, give, title · To what, where: artificial bird, silken cushions, bed, Imperial Night singer
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 (presents), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bird | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 cushions | case |
| 7 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cushions | amod |
| 8 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Emperor | det |
| 11 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Emperor | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 presents | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 presents | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 presents | det |
| 17 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | conj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 received | nsubj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 received | nsubj |
| 20 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 presents | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gold | punct |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 presents | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stones | cc |
| 24 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stones | amod |
| 25 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 presents | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lay | punct |
| 27 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lay | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 given | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 given | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 given | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 given | aux:pass |
| 34 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 put | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 title | det |
| 36 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 given | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 singer | case |
| 38 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 singer | amod |
| 39 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 singer | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Night | punct |
| 41 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 title | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 left | punct |
| 43 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 46 left | advmod |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 left | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 left | det |
| 46 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 title | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the artificial bird | silken cushions | by the Emperor's bed | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on cushion=Destination | |||
| 2 | receive | past | all presents and gold and precious stones | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay | present | round bed | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | past · passive | bed | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient title=Theme | |||||
| 5 | title | Imperial Night singer | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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