The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 94

“Because the voice you heard—I know you will laugh, but it is quite true—it was the voice of the Yara.”

Who acts: you, girl, danger · What happens: hear, know, laugh, be · To what, where: voice · 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, girl, danger), 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	_	6 heard	punct
2	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 voice	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 voice	det
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	parataxis
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 laugh	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 laugh	aux
12	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 know	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 true	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 true	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 true	advmod
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heard	parataxis
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 voice	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 voice	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 voice	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 voice	det
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Yara	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Yara	det
26	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 voice	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past	you		because the voice	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	know in a quote	present	the girl = girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	laugh in a quote	future	you			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	danger		true property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	past	danger	the voice	of the Yara	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 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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