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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 76

‘My esteemed little Nightingale,’ said the First Lord, ‘I have the great pleasure to invite you to Court this evening, where His Gracious Imperial Highness will be enchanted with your charming song!’

Who acts: esteemed little Nightingale, I, you, your · What happens: esteem, say, have, invite, court, enchant · To what, where: great pleasure, you, Gracious Imperial Highness · 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 (esteemed little Nightingale, I, you, your), 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

punctnmod:possamodamodnsubjpunctpunctdetamodnsubjpunctpunctnsubjconjdetamodobjmarkaclobjcasexcompdetobjpunctadvmodnmod:possamodamodnsubj:passauxaux:passacl:relclcasenmod:posscompoundoblpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTMyPRONesteemedVERBlittleADJNightingalePROPN,PUNCT’PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETFirstADJLordPROPN,PUNCT‘PUNCTIPRONhaveVERBtheDETgreatADJpleasureNOUNtoPARTinviteVERByouPRONtoADPCourtVERBthisDETeveningNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVHisPRONGraciousADJImperialADJHighnessNOUNwillAUXbeAUXenchantedVERBwithADPyourPRONcharmingNOUNsongNOUN!PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_8 saidpunct
2MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 Nightingalenmod:poss
3esteemedesteemVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 Nightingaleamod
4littlelittleADJDegree=Pos5 Nightingaleamod
5NightingaleNightingalePROPNNumber=Sing8 saidnsubj
6,,PUNCT_5 Nightingalepunct
7’'PUNCT_5 Nightingalepunct
8saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Lorddet
10FirstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord11 Lordamod
11LordLordPROPNNumber=Sing8 saidnsubj
12,,PUNCT_15 havepunct
13‘'PUNCT_15 havepunct
14IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs15 havensubj
15havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 saidconj
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 pleasuredet
17greatgreatADJDegree=Pos18 pleasureamod
18pleasurepleasureNOUNNumber=Sing15 haveobj
19totoPART_20 invitemark
20inviteinviteVERBVerbForm=Inf18 pleasureacl
21youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs20 inviteobj
22totoADP_23 Courtcase
23CourtcourtVERBVerbForm=Inf20 invitexcomp
24thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem25 eveningdet
25eveningeveningNOUNNumber=Sing23 Courtobj
26,,PUNCT_34 enchantedpunct
27wherewhereADVPronType=Rel34 enchantedadvmod
28HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 Highnessnmod:poss
29GraciousgraciousADJDegree=Pos31 Highnessamod
30ImperialimperialADJDegree=Pos31 Highnessamod
31HighnesshighnessNOUNNumber=Sing34 enchantednsubj:pass
32willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin34 enchantedaux
33bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf34 enchantedaux:pass
34enchantedenchantVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 eveningacl:relcl
35withwithADP_38 songcase
36youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 songnmod:poss
37charmingcharmingNOUNNumber=Sing38 songcompound
38songsongNOUNNumber=Sing34 enchantedobl
39!!PUNCT_8 saidpunct
40’'PUNCT_8 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1esteemparticiplevn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2say speech: assertpastMy esteemed little Nightingalevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3havepresentIthe great pleasurevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
4inviteto-infinitiveI not said hereyouvn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5court not said to happeninfinitiveyou not said hereeveningvn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6enchantfuture · passiveLord's Gracious Imperial Highnesswith your charming songvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
7singyournom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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