The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 132
But they liked it all the better for this; they could even sing with it, and they did.
Who acts: hearts · What happens: like, sing, do · To what, where: note
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 (hearts), 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 | _ | 3 liked | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 liked | nsubj |
| 3 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 liked | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 better | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 better | det |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 liked | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 better | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sing | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sing | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sing | aux |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 sing | advmod |
| 14 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 liked | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 did | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 liked | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | hearts = heart | note | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | could | hearts = heart | with note | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | hearts = heart | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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