The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 164
And as she sang the blood flowed quicker and quicker in the Emperor’s weak limbs, and life began to return.
Who acts: r, life · What happens: sing, flow, begin, return · To what, where: blood, weak limbs
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 (r, life), 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 | _ | 7 flowed | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 sang | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flowed | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blood | det |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obj |
| 7 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | quicker | quick | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 flowed | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 quicker | cc |
| 10 | quicker | quick | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 quicker | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 limbs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Emperor | det |
| 13 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Emperor | case |
| 15 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 limbs | amod |
| 16 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flowed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flowed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 return | mark |
| 22 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | r | the blood | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | the Emperor's weak limbs | quick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in limb=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | life | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | life not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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