Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 8

No sooner had it touched his tongue than he heard a strange whispering of little voices outside his window.

Who acts: cover, king · What happens: have, touch, hear, whisper · To what, where: tongue, strange whispering, little voices

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cover, king), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	nsubj
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tongue	nmod:poss
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 heard	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 touched	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 whispering	det
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 whispering	amod
13	whispering	whispering	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 voices	case
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voices	amod
16	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 whispering	nmod
17	outside	outside	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 window	nmod:poss
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 voices	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past			soon property	tree rules
2	touch	past	cover	king's tongue		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=Co-Theme
3	hear	past	king	a strange whispering of little voices outside king's window		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whispering=Stimulus
4	whisper			little voices outside king's window		nom whispering «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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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