The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 55
‘Thus, Kai, I stood listening to the birds, when lo, a murmuring voice approached me, saying:
Who acts: Kai, murmuring voice · What happens: stand, listen, approach, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kai, murmuring 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 2 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 stood | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thus | punct |
| 4 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kai | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stood | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 birds | det |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 listening | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 approached | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 approached | advmod |
| 14 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 19 approached | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lo | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 17 | murmuring | murmuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 voice | compound |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 approached | nsubj |
| 19 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 approached | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saying | punct |
| 22 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stood | advcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Kai | thus property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | Kai not said here | to the birds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | approach | past | a murmuring voice | me | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Kai not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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