English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 39
“Oh, the beautiful song! sing it again, sweet bird,” asked the watchmaker.
Who acts: watchmaker · What happens: sing, ask · To what, where: song · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchmaker), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sing | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 sing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 song | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 song | amod |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sing | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 sing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bird | punct |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sing | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sing | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 watchmaker | det |
| 18 | watchmaker | watchmaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | infinitive | song | again | sweet bird obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the watchmaker | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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