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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 36

Soon he heard his wife’s harsh voice singing its morning song as she went about her household affairs, scolding her daughter the while.

Who acts: Peter, harsh voice, wife, plan · What happens: hear, sing, go, scold · To what, where: morning song, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, harsh voice, wife, plan), 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

advmodnsubjnmod:possnsubjccompamodobjaclnmod:posscompoundobjmarknsubjadvclcasenmod:posscompoundoblpunctadvclnmod:possobjdetobl:unmarkedpunctrootSoonADVhePRONheardVERBhisPRONwifeNOUN’sAUXharshADJvoiceNOUNsingingVERBitsPRONmorningNOUNsongNOUNasSCONJshePRONwentVERBaboutADPherPRONhouseholdNOUNaffairsNOUN,PUNCTscoldingVERBherPRONdaughterNOUNtheDETwhileNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SoonsoonADVDegree=Pos3 heardadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 heardnsubj
3heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 wifenmod:poss
5wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing6 ’snsubj
6’sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 heardccomp
7harshharshADJDegree=Pos8 voiceamod
8voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing6 ’sobj
9singingsingVERBVerbForm=Ger8 voiceacl
10itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 songnmod:poss
11morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing12 songcompound
12songsongNOUNNumber=Sing9 singingobj
13asasSCONJ_15 wentmark
14sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 wentnsubj
15wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 singingadvcl
16aboutaboutADP_19 affairscase
17herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 affairsnmod:poss
18householdhouseholdNOUNNumber=Sing19 affairscompound
19affairsaffairNOUNNumber=Plur15 wentobl
20,,PUNCT_21 scoldingpunct
21scoldingscoldVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 wentadvcl
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 daughternmod:poss
23daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing21 scoldingobj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 whiledet
25whilewhileNOUNNumber=Sing21 scoldingobl:unmarked
26..PUNCT_3 heardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastPetersoon propertyvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2sing speech: expressgerundharsh voice not said hereplan's morning songvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3gopastwifeabout wife's household affairsvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about affair=Location
4scoldgerundwife not said herewife's daughterwhilevn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
5singplannom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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