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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Nightingale | nmod:poss |
| 3 | esteemed | esteem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Nightingale | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Nightingale | amod |
| 5 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nightingale | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nightingale | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lord | det |
| 10 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 Lord | amod |
| 11 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pleasure | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pleasure | amod |
| 18 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 invite | mark |
| 20 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 pleasure | acl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 invite | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Court | case |
| 23 | Court | court | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 invite | xcomp |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 evening | det |
| 25 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Court | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 enchanted | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 enchanted | advmod |
| 28 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 29 | Gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Highness | amod |
| 30 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Highness | amod |
| 31 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 enchanted | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 34 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 evening | acl:relcl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 song | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 song | nmod:poss |
| 37 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 song | compound |
| 38 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 enchanted | obl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | esteem | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | My esteemed little Nightingale | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | the great pleasure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient | ||||
| 4 | invite | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | court not said to happen | infinitive | you not said here | evening | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | enchant | future · passive | Lord's Gracious Imperial Highness | with your charming song | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | sing | your | nom 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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