The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 160
There was no one to wind it up, and so it could not sing.
Who acts: one, wind · What happens: be, wind, not 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: who acts (one, wind), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wind | mark |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wind | nsubj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 wind | compound |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sing | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 sing | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sing | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sing | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 sing | advmod |
| 15 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no one and wind | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wind | wind | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not sing speech: express | could | wind | 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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