The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 113

“The moment you hear the Yara’s voice,” said she, “put this to your ear, and you will hear my song instead.

Who acts: you, Yara, my · What happens: hear, say, put, sing · To what, where: voice, this, song · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Yara, my), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
5	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Yara	det
7	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 voice	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Yara	case
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 put	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 ear	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ear	nmod:poss
20	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hear	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hear	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 hear	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hear	aux
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 song	nmod:poss
27	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hear	obj
28	instead	instead	ADV	_	25 hear	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	present	you	the Yara's voice	moment		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	put in a quote	infinitive	Yara	this		to your ear	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent this=Goal
4	hear in a quote	future	you	my song		instead property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
5	sing in a quote		my				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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