The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 12
And the voice of the mountain spirit answered: “Your wish is heard; a prince you shall be.”
Who acts: voice, Your · What happens: answer, hear, wish · To what, where: wish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, Your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 spirit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spirit | compound |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 voice | nmod |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 11 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux:pass |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 prince | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 be | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 be | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 prince | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the voice of the mountain spirit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | present · passive | Your wish | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | Your | nom wish «feeling 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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