The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 19
‘But the Nightingale is better than all,’ he saw written.
Who acts: Nightingale · What happens: be, write · To what, where: gardener
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 (Nightingale), 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 | _ | 6 better | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 better | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Nightingale | det |
| 4 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 better | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | cop |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 better | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 written | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | SCONJ | _ | 13 written | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 written | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 written | aux:pass |
| 13 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 better | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Nightingale | than all; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | gardener | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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