The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 34
The young man trembled with excitement at the news, and his voice shook as he answered:
Who acts: young man, voice · What happens: tremble, shake, answer · To what, where: young man, news
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, voice), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 excitement | case |
| 6 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trembled | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 news | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 news | det |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trembled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shook | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shook | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 voice | nmod:poss |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shook | nsubj |
| 14 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 answered | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 answered | nsubj |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shook | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | participle | the young man not said here | the news | with excitement | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at news=Location | |||
| 2 | shake | past | the young man | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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