The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 13

But when they heard the Nightingale they all said, ‘This is the finest thing after all!’

Who acts: travellers, This · What happens: hear, say, be · To what, where: Nightingale, finest thing · 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 (travellers, This), 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	_	9 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Nightingale	det
6	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 they	det
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct
12	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 thing	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thing	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 thing	nmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past	travellers = traveller	the Nightingale		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	travellers = traveller			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	This	the finest thing	after all	tree rules

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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