The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 157

‘You little bright golden bird, sing! do sing!

What happens: sing

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: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 bird	nsubj
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sing	punct
8	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	conj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sing	aux
11	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bird	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present · do-support							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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