The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 33
The First Lord ran up and down stairs, through the halls and corridors; but none of those he met had ever heard of the Nightingale.
Who acts: First Lord, Lord, none · What happens: run up, meet, hear · To what, where: stairs
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 (First Lord, Lord, none), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lord | det |
| 2 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 Lord | amod |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 down | cc |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 up | conj |
| 8 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 halls | punct |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 halls | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 halls | det |
| 12 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stairs | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 corridors | cc |
| 14 | corridors | corridor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stairs | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 heard | cc |
| 17 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 those | case |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 none | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 met | nsubj |
| 21 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 none | acl:relcl |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 heard | advmod |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ran | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Nightingale | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Nightingale | det |
| 27 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | the First Lord | stairs and the halls and corridors | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Lord | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | none | ever | of the Nightingale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of nightingale=Stimulus |
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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