More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 31
And as each note pierced the air you might have seen a strange sight.
Who acts: you · What happens: pierce, see · To what, where: air, strange sight
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pierced | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 note | case |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 note | det |
| 4 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pierced | obl |
| 5 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pierced | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 air | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sight | amod |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | participle | the air | as each note | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | might · perfect | you | a strange sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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