The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 31

When it was full she went into a large kitchen and threw them all into a golden pot; but above the bubbling of the water Houarn seemed to hear the whispering of little voices.

Who acts: it, tailor · What happens: be, go, throw, seem, hear, whisper · To what, where: large kitchen, orders, golden pot, bubbling, whispering, little voices

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, tailor), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 full	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	ccomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 kitchen	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kitchen	amod
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 them	nmod:unmarked
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 pot	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pot	det
17	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pot	amod
18	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 seemed	cc
21	above	above	ADP	_	23 bubbling	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bubbling	det
23	bubbling	bubbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seemed	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bubbling	nmod
27	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 water	appos
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 hear	mark
30	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 seemed	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 whispering	det
32	whispering	whispering	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hear	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 voices	case
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 voices	amod
35	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 whispering	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			full property	tree rules
2	go	past	tailor		a large kitchen		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location
3	throw	past	tailor not said here	orders = order		into a golden pot result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into pot=Result
4	seem	past			the bubbling of the water		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	hear	to-infinitive		the whispering of little voices			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whispering=Stimulus
6	whisper			little voices			nom whispering «event transitive»: of=patient

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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