The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 41
Everyone was asking after the wonderful Nightingale which all the world knew of, except those at Court.
Who acts: Everyone, world · What happens: ask, know · To what, where: wonderful Nightingale
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 (Everyone, world), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 asking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asking | aux |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 Nightingale | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Nightingale | det |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Nightingale | amod |
| 7 | Nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asking | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 knew | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 world | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Nightingale | acl:relcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 knew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 those | punct |
| 15 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 those | case |
| 16 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 asking | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Court | case |
| 18 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 those | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · progressive | Everyone | after the wonderful Nightingale | except those | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | know | past | all world | the wonderful Nightingale | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=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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