The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 99

Yes, and eleven grocer’s children were called after her, but not one of them could sing a note.

Who acts: one · What happens: call, sing · To what, where: children, note · 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 (one), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 called	cc
4	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 grocer	nummod
5	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 children	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 grocer	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 called	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 called	aux:pass
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 called	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sing	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sing	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sing	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 one	nmod
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sing	aux
19	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 called	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 note	det
21	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sing	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive		eleven grocer's children			after Gale		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	sing speech: express	could	one of children	a note					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=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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