The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 47
‘Little kitchenmaid!’ said the First Lord, ‘I will give you a place in the kitchen, and you shall have leave to see the Emperor at dinner, if you can lead us to the Nightingale, for she is invited to come to Court this evening.’
Who acts: First Lord, I, you, mother · What happens: say, give, have, see, lead, invite · To what, where: place, you, kitchen, leave, Emperor, dinner · 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 (First Lord, I, you, mother), 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 | _ | 3 kitchenmaid | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kitchenmaid | amod |
| 3 | kitchenmaid | kitchenmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 kitchenmaid | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lord | det |
| 8 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 Lord | amod |
| 9 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 kitchen | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kitchen | det |
| 20 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 give | conj |
| 26 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 leave | acl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Emperor | det |
| 30 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 see | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 dinner | case |
| 32 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 see | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lead | punct |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 lead | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 lead | nsubj |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 lead | aux |
| 37 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 have | parataxis |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 lead | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Nightingale | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Nightingale | det |
| 41 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 lead | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 invited | punct |
| 43 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 46 invited | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 invited | aux:pass |
| 46 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 lead | conj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 come | mark |
| 48 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 invited | xcomp |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 Court | case |
| 50 | Court | court | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 come | conj |
| 51 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 evening | det |
| 52 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 Court | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the First Lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | future | I | a place | you | the kitchen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient place=Theme | ||
| 3 | have | shall | you | leave | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Emperor | dinner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer emperor=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | lead a condition, not said to happen | can | you | us | the Nightingale | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to nightingale=Destination | |||
| 6 | invite | present · passive | mother | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | court | infinitive | mother not said here | evening | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: 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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