Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 39

Where am I?" asked she, and her voice sounded ethereal, as the voice of those who were with her; no earthly music could imitate it.

Who acts: I, voice, earthly music · What happens: be, ask, sound, imitate · To what, where: ray, voice

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, voice, earthly music), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 asked	advmod
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Where	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asked	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sounded	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sounded	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 voice	nmod:poss
11	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sounded	nsubj
12	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	conj
13	ethereal	ethereal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sounded	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 voice	punct
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 voice	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 voice	det
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sounded	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 those	case
19	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 voice	nmod
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 her	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 her	cop
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 those	acl:relcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 imitate	punct
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 music	det
26	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 music	amod
27	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 imitate	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 imitate	aux
29	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 imitate	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			where property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past			ray		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	sound in a quote	past	ray's voice			as the voice of those; ethereal property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	past				with ray	tree rules
5	imitate in a quote	could	no earthly music	voice			vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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