The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 24

Fancy reading for the first time about it in a book!’

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	Fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reading	amod
2	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reading	nmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 book	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 book	det
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 reading	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 reading	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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