The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 150
And nothing came to break the silence.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: come, break · To what, where: silence
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 (nothing), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 break | mark |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 silence | det |
| 7 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | nothing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | the silence | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silence=Patient |
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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