The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 37

‘But the book in which I read this,’ said the Emperor, ‘is sent me by His Great Majesty the Emperor of Japan; so it cannot be untrue, and I will hear the Nightingale!

Who acts: I, book, Great Majesty, ‘ · What happens: read, say, send, not be, hear · To what, where: this, book, ‘, Nightingale · 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 (I, book, Great Majesty, ‘), 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	_	4 book	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 book	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 read	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 read	nsubj
8	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 book	acl:relcl
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 read	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 book	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 book	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Emperor	det
14	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sent	punct
16	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sent	aux:pass
18	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 Emperor	acl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sent	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 Majesty	case
21	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 Majesty	nmod:poss
22	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Majesty	amod
23	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Emperor	det
25	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Majesty	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Japan	case
27	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Emperor	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 untrue	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	34 untrue	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 untrue	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 untrue	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 untrue	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 untrue	cop
34	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hear	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 hear	cc
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 hear	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 hear	aux
39	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	parataxis
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Nightingale	det
41	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 hear	obj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	past	I	this	the book		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the book				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	send	present · passive	Emperor's Great Majesty	‘			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination i=Theme
4	not is	can	‘			untrue property	tree rules
5	hear	future	I	the Nightingale			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer 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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