The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 173
They are jewels that rejoice a singer’s heart.
Who acts: tears, jewels · What happens: be, rejoice · To what, where: jewels, heart
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 (tears, jewels), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jewels | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jewels | cop |
| 3 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 rejoice | nsubj |
| 5 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jewels | acl:relcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 singer | det |
| 7 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 singer | case |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rejoice | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jewels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tears = tear | jewels | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | present | jewels | a singer's heart | tree rules |
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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