The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 36
Out of its depths arose the voice of Julia singing to him as she had sung when she gave him the shell, and though the notes sounded faint at first, they swelled louder and louder till the mist which had gathered about him was blown away.
Who acts: depths, voice, Alonzo, notes · What happens: arise, sing, give, sound, swell, gather · To what, where: voice, air, shell, faint, mist
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (depths, voice, Alonzo, notes), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 5 arose | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 depths | case |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 depths | nmod:poss |
| 4 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arose | nsubj |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Julia | case |
| 9 | Julia | Julia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod |
| 10 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 voice | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 singing | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 sung | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sung | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sung | aux |
| 16 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 singing | advcl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 gave | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sung | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shell | det |
| 22 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sounded | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sounded | cc |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 sounded | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 notes | det |
| 27 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sounded | nsubj |
| 28 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arose | parataxis |
| 29 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sounded | obj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 first | case |
| 31 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 sounded | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 swelled | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 swelled | nsubj |
| 34 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sounded | conj |
| 35 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 swelled | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 louder | cc |
| 37 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 louder | conj |
| 38 | till | till | ADP | _ | 40 mist | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 mist | det |
| 40 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 swelled | obl |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 gathered | aux |
| 43 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 mist | acl:relcl |
| 44 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 47 blown | mark |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 blown | aux:pass |
| 47 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 gathered | ccomp |
| 48 | away | away | ADV | _ | 47 blown | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | song's depths | the voice of Julia | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | the voice of Julia not said here | air | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · perfect | Alonzo | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | give | past | Alonzo | the shell | air | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shell=Theme | |||
| 5 | sound | past | the notes | faint | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location faint=Theme | ||||
| 6 | swell | past | notes = note | till the mist | loud property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 7 | gather | past · perfect · passive | the mist | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | blow away | past · passive | air | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
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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