--- title: The artificial bird was put on silken cushions by the Emperor’s bed,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The artificial bird was put on silken cushions by the Emperor’s bed, all the presents which it received, gold and precious stones, lay round it, and it was given the title of Imperial Night-singer, First from the left. Who acts: presents. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nig --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/126/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/) / 126 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 126 The artificial bird was put on silken cushions by the Emperor’s bed, all the presents which it received, gold and precious stones, lay round it, and it was given the title of Imperial Night-singer, First from the left. **Who acts:** presents · **What happens:** put, receive, lay, give, title · **To what, where:** artificial bird, silken cushions, bed, Imperial Night singer 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 (presents), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:48:126 # text = The artificial bird was put on silken cushions by the Emperor’s bed, all the presents which it received, gold and precious stones, lay round it, and it was given the title of Imperial Night-singer, First from the left. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 artificial artificial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 silken silken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cushions cushion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 28 round round ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 Night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 First first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 46 advmod _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past · passive | | the artificial bird | | silken cushions | | by the Emperor's bed | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on cushion=Destination | | 2 | **receive** | past | all presents and gold and precious stones | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lay** | present | | | | | | round bed | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | past · passive | | bed | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient title=Theme | | 5 | **title** | | | Imperial Night singer | | | | | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/127/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/48/)