The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 180

‘You shall sing whenever you like, and I will break the artificial bird into a thousand pieces.’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: sing, like, break · To what, where: artificial bird, thousand pieces

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 (You, 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	_	4 sing	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sing	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sing	aux
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 sing	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 whenever	advcl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 break	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 break	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 break	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 break	aux
12	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sing	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bird	det
14	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bird	amod
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 break	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 pieces	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thousand	det
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 pieces	nummod
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 break	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sing	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	shall	You		whenever property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	like	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	break	future	I	the artificial bird	into thousand pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bird=Patient into piece=Result

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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