The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 4

And the music sounded always sweeter, though they could never see whence it came, and sought it from one part of the vessel to another.

Who acts: music, they · What happens: sound, not see, come, seek · To what, where: music, one part · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, they), 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	_	4 sounded	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 music	det
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounded	nsubj
4	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 sweeter	advmod
6	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sounded	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sounded	conj
13	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 see	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sought	cc
18	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sounded	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sought	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 part	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 part	nummod
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sought	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 vessel	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 vessel	det
25	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 part	nmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 another	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 sought	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past	the music			sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not see	could	they				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come	past	music			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seek	past	the music not said here	music	one part of the vessel	to another	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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