The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 19
‘Were there ever two people so unhappy!’ said a woman’s voice.
Who acts: two people · What happens: be, say · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two people), 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 there | punct |
| 2 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 said | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 people | advmod |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 people | nummod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 unhappy | advmod |
| 8 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 unhappy | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 unhappy | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 woman | case |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | two people | a woman's voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
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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