The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 70
‘With the greatest of pleasure!’ said the Nightingale; and she sang so gloriously that it was a pleasure to listen.
Who acts: pleasure · What happens: say, sing, be, listen · To what, where: pleasure · 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 (pleasure), 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 pleasure | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 greatest | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 greatest | det |
| 4 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 pleasure | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pleasure | case |
| 6 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleasure | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleasure | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Nightingale | det |
| 11 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sang | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sang | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sang | nsubj |
| 15 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 gloriously | advmod |
| 17 | gloriously | gloriously | ADV | _ | 15 sang | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 pleasure | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pleasure | expl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pleasure | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pleasure | det |
| 22 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sang | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 listen | mark |
| 24 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pleasure | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | pleasure with the greatest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | pleasure | gloriously property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a pleasure | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | listen | to-infinitive | pleasure not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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