The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 60

I was taking my last plunge, when I heard—sometimes from one side, and sometimes from another—the sound of a voice singing more sweetly than any nightingale, though I could not catch any words.

Who acts: I, voice, my · What happens: take, hear, sing, not catch, plunge · To what, where: last plunge, one side, words

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 (I, voice, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 taking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taking	aux
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 plunge	nmod:poss
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plunge	amod
6	plunge	plunge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taking	parataxis
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 side	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 side	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 side	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 side	nummod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 another	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 another	cc
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 another	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 heard	conj
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 sound	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sound	det
23	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 voice	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 voice	det
26	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sound	nmod
27	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 voice	acl
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 sweetly	advmod
29	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	27 singing	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 nightingale	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 nightingale	det
32	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sweetly	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 catch	punct
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 catch	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 catch	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 catch	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 catch	advmod
38	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 taking	conj
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 words	det
40	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 catch	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	I	my last plunge		the sound of a voice obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plunge=Theme
2	hear	past	I		one side		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from side=Source
3	sing speech: express	gerund	a voice not said here			sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not catch	could	I	any words			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	plunge		my				nom plunge «act transitive»: 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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