The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 98

The whole town was talking about the wonderful bird, and when two people met each other one would say ‘Nightin,’ and the other ‘Gale,’ and then they would both sigh and understand one another.

Who acts: whole town, two people, people · What happens: talk, meet, say, sigh, understand · To what, where: other one, Nightin, one · 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 (whole town, two people, people), 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	3 town	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 town	amod
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talking	aux
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 bird	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 say	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 met	mark
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 people	nummod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 met	nsubj
15	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 say	ccomp
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 one	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 talking	parataxis
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Nightin	punct
22	Nightin	Nightin	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 say	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Nightin	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 Nightin	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Gale	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Gale	amod
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 Gale	punct
29	Gale	Gale	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Nightin	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Gale	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 Gale	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sigh	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 sigh	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sigh	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 sigh	aux
36	both	both	ADV	_	37 sigh	advmod
37	sigh	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 Nightin	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 understand	cc
39	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 sigh	conj
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 understand	obj
41	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	40 one	fixed
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	the whole town			about the wonderful bird	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bird=Topic
2	meet	past	two people	each other one			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	would		Nightin and other Gale			tree rules
4	sigh	would	people		then	both property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	understand	infinitive	people not said here	one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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