The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 131
The Emperor, the Court, and all the Chinese knew every note of the artificial bird’s song by heart.
Who acts: Emperor, artificial bird · What happens: know, note, sing · To what, where: note, song
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 (Emperor, artificial bird), 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 | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Court | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Court | det |
| 5 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Emperor | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Chinese | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Chinese | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 Chinese | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Chinese | det |
| 10 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Emperor | amod |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 note | det |
| 13 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 song | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bird | det |
| 16 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bird | amod |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 song | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 bird | case |
| 19 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 note | nmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Emperor | every note of the artificial bird's song | by heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | note | the artificial bird's song | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | sing | the artificial bird | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/131/