The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 133

The street boys sang ‘Tra-la-la-la-la, and the Emperor sang too sometimes.

Who acts: street boys, Emperor · What happens: sing · To what, where: Tra

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 (street boys, Emperor), 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 boys	det
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boys	compound
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Tra	punct
6	Tra	Tra	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 la	punct
8	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	6 Tra	appos
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 la	punct
10	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	6 Tra	flat:foreign
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 la	punct
12	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	6 Tra	dep
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 la	punct
14	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	12 la	flat:foreign
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sang	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sang	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Emperor	det
18	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sang	nsubj
19	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sang	conj
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 sometimes	advmod
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 sang	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the street boys	Tra					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tra=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	the Emperor					sometimes property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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