The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 82
Everyone was dressed in his best, and everyone was looking towards the little grey bird to whom the Emperor nodded.
Who acts: everyone, Emperor · What happens: dress, look, nod · To what, where: Everyone, best
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 (everyone, 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 best | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 best | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 dressed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looking | cc |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 looking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looking | aux |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 dressed | advcl |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 bird | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bird | amod |
| 15 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bird | amod |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 whom | case |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 looking | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Emperor | det |
| 20 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 nodded | nsubj |
| 21 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 whom | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | Everyone | Emperor's best | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | everyone | towards the little grey bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | nod | past | the Emperor | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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