The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 128
And the bandmaster wrote a work of twenty-five volumes about the artificial bird.
Who acts: bandmaster, five volumes · What happens: write, work · To what, where: work
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 (bandmaster, five volumes), 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 | _ | 4 wrote | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bandmaster | det |
| 3 | bandmaster | bandmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 work | det |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrote | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 volumes | case |
| 8 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 five | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 twenty | punct |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 volumes | nummod |
| 11 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 work | nmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 14 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bird | amod |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 volumes | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the bandmaster | a work of five volumes about the artificial bird | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | five volumes about the artificial bird | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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