More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 67

"Who did it?" said the voice angrily; this time it sounded nearer, and the boy, peeping from under the clothes, could see a white face looking out from the chimney-opening.

Who acts: voice, child, white face · What happens: do, say, sound, peep, see, look out · To what, where: child, boy, white face, chimney opening · 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, child, white face), 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	_	3 did	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 voice	det
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sounded	punct
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sounded	obl:unmarked
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sounded	nsubj
15	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
16	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 sounded	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 boy	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 boy	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sounded	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 peeping	punct
22	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 sounded	advcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 clothes	case
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 clothes	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 clothes	det
26	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 peeping	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sounded	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 face	det
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 face	amod
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
33	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 face	acl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 looking	compound:prt
35	from	from	ADP	_	39 opening	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 opening	det
37	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 opening	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 chimney	punct
39	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looking	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	past		child				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	say speech: ask	past	the voice				angrily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sound	past	child	the boy		time	near property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	peep	gerund	child not said here				from the clothes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from clothes=Theme
5	see	could	child not said here	a white face				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
6	look out	gerund	a white face not said here		the chimney opening			vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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