The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 22
Is there such a bird in my empire, and so near as in my garden?
What happens: be · To what, where: bird, empire
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: 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bird | cop |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Is | expl |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 bird | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 empire | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 empire | nmod:poss |
| 8 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bird | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 garden | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 garden | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 near | advmod |
| 12 | near | near | ADV | _ | 16 garden | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 garden | nmod:poss |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bird | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | such bird and my garden | my empire | tree rules |
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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