The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 126

At last they met a poor little girl in the kitchen who said, “Why, I know the Nightingale, and I have often heard her sing.

Who acts: people, kitchen · What happens: meet, say, know, hear · To what, where: poor little girl, last, Nightingale, sing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, kitchen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 met	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 kitchen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kitchen	det
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kitchen	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 know	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Why	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Nightingale	det
21	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 know	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 heard	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	aux
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 heard	advmod
27	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 know	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sing	nmod:poss
29	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	people	a poor little girl	last	in the kitchen	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the kitchen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	the kitchen = kitchen	the Nightingale			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus
4	hear in a quote	present · perfect	the kitchen = kitchen	girl's sing		often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sing=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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 126

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 126