The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 57

‘Now we hear her; it sounds like a little church-bell!’

Who acts: we, chaplain · What happens: hear, sound · To what, where: girl

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 (we, chaplain), 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 hear	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hear	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 sounds	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sounds	nsubj
8	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	advcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	14 bell	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bell	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bell	amod
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bell	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 church	punct
14	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounds	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	we	girl			now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	sound	present	chaplain					like a little church bell	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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