The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 84
Then the Nightingale sang even more beautifully; it went straight to all hearts.
Who acts: Nightingale, kitchenmaid · What happens: sing, go · To what, where: hearts
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, kitchenmaid), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sang | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Nightingale | det |
| 3 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 beautifully | advmod |
| 7 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 4 sang | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sang | conj |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 hearts | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 hearts | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 hearts | det |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the Nightingale | then | beautifully property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | kitchenmaid | all hearts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_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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