The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 141

Only once a year was the artificial bird allowed to sing, and even that was almost too much for it.

Who acts: year, artificial bird, that · What happens: be, allow, sing · To what, where: artificial bird

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 (year, artificial bird, that), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 once	advmod
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 year	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
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	root	root
9	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bird	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sing	mark
11	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 allowed	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 much	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 much	cc
14	even	even	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 much	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 much	cop
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 too	advmod
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	appos
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 much	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a year	the artificial bird		tree rules
2	allow	participle		the artificial bird not said here		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
3	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	the artificial bird not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	that		for calamity; much property	tree rules

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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