The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 23
So Manus slept, and by-and-by a voice sounded in his ears, saying: 'Arise!'
Who acts: Manus, voice · What happens: sleep, sound, say, arise · To what, where: voice, ears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Manus, voice), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 slept | advmod |
| 2 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saying | cc |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 saying | mark |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 by | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saying | cc |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 voice | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saying | nsubj |
| 13 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 voice | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ears | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ears | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sounded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 slept | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Arise | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Arise | punct |
| 21 | Arise | arise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 slept | parataxis |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 Arise | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Arise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | Manus | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sound | participle | a voice not said here | Manus's ears | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | a voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | arise | infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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