The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 42
And in a low, trembling voice, the visitor told her story.
Who acts: visitor · What happens: tremble, tell · To what, where: story, low trembling voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visitor), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 4 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trembling | punct |
| 6 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 voice | amod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 voice | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 visitor | det |
| 10 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 story | nmod:poss |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the visitor | visitor's story | a low trembling voice | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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