The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 186
I will sing of joy, and of sorrow; I will sing of the evil and the good which lies hidden from you.
Who acts: I, evil · What happens: sing, lie, hide
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, evil), 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 sing | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | aux |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sorrow | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sorrow | cc |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sorrow | case |
| 9 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sing | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sing | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sing | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sing | aux |
| 13 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sing | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 evil | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 evil | det |
| 16 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sing | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 good | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 good | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 evil | conj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lies | nsubj |
| 21 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 evil | acl:relcl |
| 22 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 lies | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 hidden | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | future | I | of joy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | future | I | of the evil | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | the evil | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hide | participle | the evil not said here | from you | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from you=Beneficiary |
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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