The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 15

But they did not forget the Nightingale; she was praised the most, and all the poets composed splendid verses on the Nightingale in the forest by the deep sea.

Who acts: travellers, poets · What happens: not forget, praise, compose · To what, where: Nightingale, Palace, splendid verses

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 (travellers, poets), 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	_	5 forget	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forget	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 forget	advmod
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Nightingale	det
7	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 forget	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 praised	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 praised	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 praised	aux:pass
11	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 forget	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 most	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 praised	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 composed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 composed	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 poets	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 poets	det
18	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 composed	nsubj
19	composed	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 praised	advcl
20	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 verses	amod
21	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 composed	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 Nightingale	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Nightingale	det
24	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 verses	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forest	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 composed	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
30	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sea	amod
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 composed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not forget	past · do-support	travellers = traveller	the Nightingale			tree rules
2	praise	past · passive		Palace			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	compose	past	all poets	splendid verses	the Nightingale	in the forest; by the deep sea	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Result

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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