The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 185

I will sit in the evening on the bough outside the window, and I will sing you something that will make you feel happy and grateful.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: sit, sing, make, feel · To what, where: bough, something, you

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, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sit	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 evening	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bough	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bough	det
9	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
10	outside	outside	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bough	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sing	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 sing	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sing	aux
17	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 sing	iobj
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 sing	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 make	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 make	aux
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 something	acl:relcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 make	obj
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 make	xcomp
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feel	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grateful	cc
27	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 happy	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	future	I			the bough outside the window	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location
2	sing speech: express	future	I	something	you				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary something=Theme
3	make	future		you					tree rules
4	feel	infinitive	you not said here					happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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