The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 175
And the Emperor fell into a deep, calm sleep as she sang.
Who acts: Emperor, moon · What happens: fall, sing · To what, where: deep calm sleep
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 (Emperor, moon), 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 | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emperor | det |
| 3 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 sleep | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sleep | det |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sleep | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 deep | punct |
| 9 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sleep | amod |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 sang | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sang | nsubj |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the Emperor | into a deep calm sleep result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | moon | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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