More English Fairy Tales, John D. Batten, sentence 6

_Then, if you are_ very _quiet, you will hear a teeny tiny voice say through the grating_ "Take down the Key."

Who acts: you, _ · What happens: be, hear, say, take down · To what, where: _ quiet, teeny tiny voice, grating, Key · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, John D. Batten. 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hear	nsubj
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 hear	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 quiet	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 quiet	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 quiet	cop
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 quiet	punct
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 _	advmod
9	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 quiet	amod
10	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hear	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quiet	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 hear	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	aux
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 say	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 voice	det
16	teeny	teeny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 voice	amod
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 voice	amod
18	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hear	obj
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 grating	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grating	det
22	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	obl
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 Take	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Take	punct
25	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 say	ccomp
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 Take	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Key	det
28	Key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Take	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 Take	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	you	_ quiet			tree rules
2	hear	future	_	a teeny tiny voice		then	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present			the grating		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take down in a quote	infinitive		the Key			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=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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