The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 18
She had been changed into a nightingale, who was singing ‘jug, jug.’
Who acts: nightingale · What happens: change, sing · To what, where: Jorinde, nightingale, jug
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightingale), 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 | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 changed | aux:pass |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 nightingale | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nightingale | det |
| 7 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 singing | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 singing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 singing | aux |
| 11 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 nightingale | acl |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 jug | punct |
| 13 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 singing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jug | punct |
| 15 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jug | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · perfect · passive | Jorinde | into a nightingale result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into nightingale=Result | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | a nightingale | jug and jug | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jug=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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