The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 107
Last of all, she sang in a low voice a dirge over the Rover of the Plain.
Who acts: Last · What happens: sing · To what, where: low voice
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Last), 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Last | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sang | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sang | nsubj |
| 6 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 voice | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sang | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dirge | det |
| 12 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | appos |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 Rover | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rover | det |
| 15 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 dirge | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Plain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Plain | det |
| 18 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Rover | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Last of all | a low voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location |
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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