The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 171
‘I brought tears to your eyes the first time I sang.
Who acts: I · What happens: bring, sing · To what, where: tears, eyes, first time
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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 brought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sang | nsubj |
| 12 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | I | tears | your eyes | time | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme to eye=Destination | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | I | the first time not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=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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