More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 63
A voice came from the chimney speaking sharply:
Who acts: voice, chimney · What happens: come, speak · To what, where: chimney · 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 (voice, chimney), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 voice | det |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 chimney | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chimney | det |
| 6 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 chimney | acl |
| 8 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 7 speaking | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a voice | the chimney | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chimney=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | the chimney not said here | sharply property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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