The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 95

She had to stay at Court now; she had her own cage, and permission to walk out twice in the day and once at night.

Who acts: coquetry · What happens: have, stay, walk out · To what, where: Court, own cage

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 (coquetry), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Court	case
6	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stay	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cage	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cage	amod
13	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 permission	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 permission	cc
16	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 walk	mark
18	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 permission	acl
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 walk	advmod
20	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 walk	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 day	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walk	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 once	cc
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 permission	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 night	case
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 once	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	coquetry					tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive	coquetry not said here		Court	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location
3	have	past	coquetry	coquetry's own cage				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Patient
4	walk out	to-infinitive	coquetry not said here			day	out, twice property	vn resign-10.11 «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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