More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 55
"My own self," she said in a shrill but sweet little voice, and she looked at him too. "
Who acts: girl · What happens: say, look · To what, where: shrill little voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | _ | 4 self | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 self | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 self | amod |
| 4 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 self | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 self | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 11 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 sweet | cc |
| 13 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shrill | conj |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looked | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | obl |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 looked | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | girl | a shrill little voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | ||||
| 2 | look | past | girl | at boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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: «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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