The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 8
Large ships could sail under the boughs of the trees, and in these trees there lived a Nightingale.
Who acts: Large ships, trees · What happens: sail, live · To what, where: boughs, 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 (Large ships, trees), 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 | Large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ships | amod |
| 2 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sail | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sail | aux |
| 4 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 boughs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boughs | det |
| 7 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sail | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 boughs | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lived | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 trees | advmod |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sail | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Nightingale | det |
| 19 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | could | Large ships | the boughs of the trees | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | this trees | a Nightingale | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme nightingale=Location |
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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