The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 145
The Chinese look upon their Emperor as everything, and now he was ill, and not likely to live it was said.
Who acts: Chinese, sorrow · What happens: look, be, live, say · To what, where: nation · 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 (Chinese, sorrow), 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 Chinese | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 Emperor | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Emperor | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 everything | case |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ill | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ill | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 ill | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ill | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ill | cop |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 likely | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 likely | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 likely | advmod |
| 18 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 likely | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux:pass |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 live | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the Chinese | upon words's Emperor; as everything | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon emperor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | sorrow | now | ill property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | the Chinese not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · passive | nation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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