The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 138
The Emperor sprang up, and had his physician summoned, but what could HE do!
Who acts: Emperor, physician · What happens: spring up, have, summon, do
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, physician), 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 | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sprang | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 physician | nmod:poss |
| 9 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 summoned | nsubj |
| 10 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | HE | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sprang | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the Emperor | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the Emperor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | summon | past | Emperor's physician | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | could | physician | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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