The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 75
‘Shall I sing once more for the Emperor?’ asked the Nightingale, thinking that the Emperor was there.
Who acts: I, Emperor · What happens: sing, ask, think, be · To what, where: Nightingale
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, Emperor), 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 sing | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | INTJ | _ | 4 sing | discourse |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 sing | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Emperor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Emperor | det |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 Emperor | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Emperor | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sing | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Nightingale | det |
| 14 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinking | punct |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 there | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Emperor | det |
| 19 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 there | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 there | cop |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 thinking | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | I | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | I not said here | the Nightingale | for the Emperor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nightingale=Recipient | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | I not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the Emperor | there property | tree rules |
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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