The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 69

‘Little Nightingale,’ called out the little kitchenmaid, ‘our Gracious Emperor wants you to sing before him!’

Who acts: Gracious Emperor, you · What happens: call out, want, sing · To what, where: Little Nightingale, you

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 (Gracious Emperor, you), 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	_	6 called	punct
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Nightingale	amod
3	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
5	’	'	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 called	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchenmaid	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kitchenmaid	amod
10	kitchenmaid	kitchenmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wants	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 wants	punct
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Emperor	nmod:poss
14	Gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Emperor	amod
15	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wants	nsubj
16	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 wants	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sing	mark
19	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wants	xcomp
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sing	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		Little Nightingale		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	want	present	our Gracious Emperor	you		tree rules
3	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		before Emperor	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location

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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