The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 135

But one evening, when the artificial bird was singing its best, and the Emperor lay in bed listening to it, something in the bird went crack.

Who acts: artificial bird, Emperor · What happens: sing, lie, listen, go · To what, where: bed, something, note, crack

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 (artificial bird, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 best	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 evening	nummod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 best	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 singing	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 singing	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 singing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 singing	aux
10	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 best	csubj
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 best	nmod:poss
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Emperor	det
16	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 best	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 bed	case
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
20	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lay	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 listening	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 something	punct
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 listening	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 bird	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bird	det
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 something	acl:relcl
29	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 best	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the artificial bird					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	lie	past	the Emperor			bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
3	listen	gerund	the Emperor not said here	something	note			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
4	go	past		crack			in the bird	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crack=Theme

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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