The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 80
“Did you not hear the song?” she asked, trembling.
Who acts: you, thing · What happens: not hear, ask, tremble · To what, where: 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, thing), 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 | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hear | advmod |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 song | det |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trembling | punct |
| 13 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear in a quote | past · do-support | you | the song | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | thing not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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