The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 144

“It will give me great pleasure to do so,” said the Nightingale; and then she began to sing so gloriously that they were all entranced.

Who acts: deal, Nightingale, maid · What happens: give, do, say, begin, sing, entrance · To what, where: great pleasure, Nightingale, people · 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 (deal, Nightingale, maid), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pleasure	amod
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	advcl
10	so	so	ADV	_	9 do	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Nightingale	det
15	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 began	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sing	mark
22	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 gloriously	advmod
24	gloriously	gloriously	ADV	_	22 sing	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 entranced	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 entranced	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 entranced	aux:pass
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 entranced	advmod
29	entranced	entrance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 gloriously	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	future	deal	great pleasure	the Nightingale = nightingale			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=Theme
2	do in a quote	to-infinitive	deal not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the Nightingale					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	begin	past	maid			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	maid not said here				gloriously property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	entrance	past · passive		people			all property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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 144

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 144