The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 59
‘But I think we shall soon hear her now!’
Who acts: I, we · What happens: think, hear · To what, where: girl · 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, we), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 think | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hear | aux |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 hear | advmod |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hear | obj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 hear | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | shall | we | girl | now | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=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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