The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 78
Seafaring people have often heard, off the coast of Kerry, on a still night, the sound of music coming up from the water; and some, who have had good ears, could plainly distinguish Maurice Connor’s voice singing these words to his pipes--
Who acts: Seafaring people, music, some · What happens: hear, come up, have, distinguish, sing · To what, where: water, good ears, voice, words, pipes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seafaring people, music, some), 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 | Seafaring | seafaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | compound |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coast | punct |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coast | det |
| 9 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kerry | case |
| 11 | Kerry | Kerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coast | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 night | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 night | advmod |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sound | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sound | det |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 night | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 music | case |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sound | nmod |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 music | acl |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 coming | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 distinguish | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 some | cc |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 distinguish | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 had | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 had | aux |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 some | parataxis |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ears | amod |
| 35 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 had | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 some | punct |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 distinguish | aux |
| 38 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 39 distinguish | advmod |
| 39 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | conj |
| 40 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 voice | nmod:poss |
| 41 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Maurice | flat |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 Maurice | case |
| 43 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 distinguish | obj |
| 44 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 distinguish | advcl |
| 45 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 46 words | det |
| 46 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 singing | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 pipes | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 49 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 singing | obl |
| 50 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | Seafaring people | night | off the coast of Kerry; often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | come up | gerund | music not said here | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | good ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | |||||
| 4 | distinguish | could | some | Maurice's voice | plainly property | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute voice=Theme | |||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | some not said here | this words | Maurice's pipes | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to pipe=Recipient |
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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