The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 75
She also had her favourite name, but, just as she was going to say it, she seemed to hear a voice whisper: “Marry no one who is not called Hábogi.”
Who acts: Helga · What happens: have, go, say, seem, hear, marry · To what, where: favourite name, name, voice whisper, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 name | amod |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 seemed | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 seemed | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 say | mark |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 going | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 say | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hear | mark |
| 22 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 whisper | det |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 whisper | compound |
| 25 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hear | obj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 Marry | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Marry | punct |
| 28 | Marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Marry | obj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 called | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 called | aux:pass |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 called | advmod |
| 34 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 one | acl:relcl |
| 35 | Hábogi | Hábogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 called | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 Marry | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Helga | Helga's favourite name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Helga | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Helga not said here | name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | Helga | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive | Helga not said here | a voice whisper | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whisper=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | marry in a quote | infinitive | no one | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||||
| 7 | not call in a quote | present · passive | no one | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 8 | name | Helga | nom name «communication 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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