The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 9

She sang so beautifully that even the poor fisherman who had so much to do stood and listened when he came at night to cast his nets.

Who acts: forest, poor fisherman, fisherman · What happens: sing, have, do, stand, listen, come · To what, where: much, nets

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 (forest, poor fisherman, fisherman), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 beautifully	advmod
4	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 stood	mark
6	even	even	ADV	_	9 fisherman	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fisherman	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fisherman	amod
9	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fisherman	acl:relcl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 had	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 much	acl
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 listened	cc
18	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stood	conj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 came	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 listened	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cast	mark
25	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nets	nmod:poss
27	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cast	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	forest			beautifully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	have	past	the poor fisherman	much			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past	the poor fisherman				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	listen	past	the poor fisherman not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	fisherman		night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cast	to-infinitive	fisherman not said here	fisherman's nets			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product

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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