The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 85
The Emperor was so delighted that he said she should wear his gold slipper round her neck.
Who acts: Emperor, cow · What happens: be, say, wear · To what, where: gold slipper · 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 (Emperor, cow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 said | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wear | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wear | aux |
| 11 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 slipper | nmod:poss |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slipper | compound |
| 14 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wear | obj |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wear | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Emperor | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wear | should | cow | Emperor's gold slipper | round cow's neck | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent slipper=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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