More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 47
In a different tone of voice, and with a different twist of the mouth, each answered that it was occasioned by spinning.
Who acts: each · What happens: answer, occasion, spin, intonate, twist · To what, where: different tone, mouth, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tone | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tone | det |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tone | amod |
| 4 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 voice | case |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tone | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twist | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 twist | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 twist | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 twist | det |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 twist | amod |
| 12 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tone | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mouth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mouth | det |
| 15 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 twist | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tone | punct |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 occasioned | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 occasioned | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 occasioned | aux:pass |
| 22 | occasioned | occasion | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 spinning | mark |
| 24 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 occasioned | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | each | a different tone of voice and a different twist of the mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | occasion | past · passive | mouth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | intonate | voice | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | twist | the mouth | nom twist «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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