The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 83
The Nightingale sang so gloriously that the tears came into the Emperor’s eyes and ran down his cheeks.
Who acts: Nightingale, tears · What happens: sing, come, run down · To what, where: eyes, cheeks
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 (Nightingale, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3672): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Nightingale | det |
| 2 | Nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 gloriously | advmod |
| 5 | gloriously | gloriously | ADV | _ | 3 sang | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tears | det |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gloriously | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Emperor | det |
| 12 | Emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Emperor | case |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 cheeks | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ran | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the Nightingale | gloriously property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the tears | the Emperor's eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | run down | past | the tears not said here | Emperor's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cheek=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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