The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 77

‘It sounds best in the green wood,’ said the Nightingale; but still, she came gladly when she heard that the Emperor wished it.

Who acts: Highness, Nightingale, pleasure, Emperor · What happens: sound, say, come, hear, wish · To what, where: green wood, 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 (Highness, Nightingale, pleasure, 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	_	3 sounds	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sounds	nsubj
3	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 sounds	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounds	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wood	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Nightingale	det
13	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
16	still	still	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sounds	parataxis
20	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 heard	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 heard	nsubj
23	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 wished	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Emperor	det
26	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 wished	nsubj
27	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	ccomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wished	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sounds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	Highness		the green wood		well property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the Nightingale	the green wood not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wood=Topic
3	come	past	pleasure			still	gladly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	past	pleasure					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	wish	past	the Emperor	Highness				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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