More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 53

Clearer than ever, but tired and spent with greeting came the little sobbing voice--"Ooh! ooh! the stone, the stone on top."

Who acts: tired · What happens: spend, come · To what, where: little sobbing voice

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tired), 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	Clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	3 ever	case
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Clearer	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 came	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spent	cc
8	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tired	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 greeting	case
10	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spent	obl
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Clearer	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 voice	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 voice	amod
14	sobbing	sobbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 voice	compound
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 Clearer	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Clearer	punct
18	Ooh	ooh	INTJ	_	1 Clearer	discourse
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Clearer	punct
20	ooh	ooh	INTJ	_	1 Clearer	discourse
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Clearer	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stone	det
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clearer	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stone	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stone	det
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stone	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 top	case
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stone	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Clearer	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Clearer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	participle	tired not said here					with greeting	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	tired	the little sobbing voice					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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