The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 27

‘Here is a most remarkable bird which is called a Nightingale!’ said the Emperor.

Who acts: remarkable bird · What happens: be, call, say · To what, where: remarkable bird · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (remarkable bird), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 said	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 remarkable	advmod
6	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 called	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bird	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Nightingale	det
12	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Nightingale	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 Nightingale	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Emperor	det
17	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			here property	tree rules
2	call	present · passive		a remarkable bird		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	a remarkable bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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