The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 102
He could see nothing, and somehow, when he thought about it, the voice seemed as if it were part of himself.
Who acts: king, voice, world · What happens: see, think, seem, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, voice, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 somehow | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 somehow | cc |
| 7 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 thought | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seemed | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 part | case |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 part | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 part | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 part | cop |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seemed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 himself | case |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 part | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | king | nothing | somehow property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | king | about world | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the voice | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | world | as part; of king | tree rules |
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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