The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 139

Then the clockmaker came, and, after a great deal of talking and examining, he put the bird somewhat in order, but he said that it must be very seldom used as the works were nearly worn out, and it was impossible to put in new ones.

Who acts: clockmaker, great deal · What happens: come, talk, examine, put, say, use · To what, where: bird, order, works · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (clockmaker, great deal), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clockmaker	det
3	clockmaker	clockmaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deal	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 deal	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 and	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 deal	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 deal	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deal	amod
11	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	conj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 talking	mark
13	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 deal	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 examining	cc
15	examining	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 talking	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bird	det
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obj
21	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	18 put	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 order	case
23	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 used	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 used	nsubj:pass
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 used	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 used	aux:pass
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 seldom	advmod
33	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	34 used	advmod
34	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 said	ccomp
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 worn	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 works	det
37	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 worn	nsubj:pass
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 worn	aux:pass
39	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	40 worn	advmod
40	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 used	advcl
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 worn	compound:prt
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 impossible	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 impossible	cc
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 impossible	expl
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 impossible	cop
46	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 put	mark
48	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 impossible	csubj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 ones	case
50	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 ones	amod
51	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 put	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the clockmaker			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	gerund	a great deal not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	examine	gerund	a great deal not said here					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	put	past	clockmaker	the bird	order		somewhat property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in order=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	clockmaker					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	use	must · passive		order			seldom property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	wear out	past · passive		the works			nearly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
8	is	past	the clockmaker not said here				impossible property	tree rules
9	put	to-infinitive					in new ones	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in one=Destination

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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