The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 18
He nodded his head every moment, for he liked reading the brilliant accounts of the town, the Palace, and the garden.
Who acts: gardener · What happens: nod, like, read, account · To what, where: head, brilliant accounts, town
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 (gardener), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 nodded | nsubj |
| 2 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nodded | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nodded | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 liked | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 liked | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 liked | nsubj |
| 10 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nodded | conj |
| 11 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 liked | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 accounts | det |
| 13 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 accounts | amod |
| 14 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reading | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accounts | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Palace | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Palace | det |
| 20 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 town | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 garden | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 garden | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 garden | det |
| 24 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nodded | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | gardener | gardener's head | moment | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | like | past | gardener | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | read | gerund | gardener not said here | the brilliant accounts of the town | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Topic | ||||
| 4 | account | the town | nom account «communication 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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