The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 163

It was the little living Nightingale, who, sitting outside on a bough, had heard the need of her Emperor and had come to sing to him of comfort and hope.

Who acts: burst, little living Nightingale · What happens: be, sit, hear, come, sing, need · To what, where: little living Nightingale, bough, need, Emperor

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 (burst, little living Nightingale), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Nightingale	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Nightingale	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Nightingale	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Nightingale	amod
5	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Nightingale	amod
6	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sitting	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Nightingale	acl
11	outside	outside	ADV	_	10 sitting	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 bough	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bough	det
14	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Nightingale	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 need	det
19	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Emperor	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Emperor	nmod:poss
22	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 need	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 heard	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sing	mark
27	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sing	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 comfort	case
31	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sing	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hope	cc
33	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 comfort	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Nightingale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	burst	the little living Nightingale				tree rules
2	sit	gerund	the little living Nightingale			a bough	outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location
3	hear	past · perfect		the need of r's Emperor				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer need=Stimulus
4	come	past · perfect						tree rules
5	sing speech: express	to-infinitive			Emperor		of comfort and hope	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	need			r's Emperor				nom need «state 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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