The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 93

‘This bell,’ she said, ‘can be heard at any distance, however far, but it only rings to warn us that our friends are in great danger.

Who acts: girl, distance, friends · What happens: say, hear, ring, warn, be · To what, where: us, great danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, distance, friends), 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	_	3 bell	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 bell	det
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bell	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 bell	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 heard	aux:pass
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 distance	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 distance	det
15	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 far	punct
17	however	however	ADV	_	18 far	advmod
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 heard	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rings	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 rings	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rings	nsubj
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 rings	advmod
23	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 warn	mark
25	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 rings	xcomp
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 warn	obj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 danger	mark
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 friends	nmod:poss
29	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 danger	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 danger	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 danger	case
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 danger	amod
33	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 warn	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	hear	can · passive	girl not said here			at any distance; far property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»
3	ring	present	distance				tree rules
4	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	distance not said here	us			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
5	is	present	our friends		great danger		tree rules

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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