The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 73
You sang so loud that the whole world might have heard you!'
Who acts: You, whole world · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, whole world), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 loud | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loud | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 loud | advmod |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 heard | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 world | amod |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 heard | aux |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 loud | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 loud | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 loud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | You | loud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | might · perfect | the whole world | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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