The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 162
All at once there came in at the window the most glorious burst of song.
Who acts: All · What happens: come in, burst · To what, where: window, song
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 (All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 there | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 there | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 All | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 burst | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 glorious | advmod |
| 12 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 burst | amod |
| 13 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 window | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 song | case |
| 15 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burst | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | All | the window and the glorious burst of song | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location | ||||
| 2 | burst | song | nom burst «act transitive»: of=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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