The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 53
But she was very much surprised to hear an odd little voice cry out: “Oh!
Who acts: Queen · What happens: be, hear, cry out · To what, where: odd little voice
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 surprised | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprised | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 surprised | advmod |
| 6 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 surprised | advcl |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 10 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obj |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hear | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cry | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 surprised | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Oh | punct |
| 17 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 surprised | discourse |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Queen | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | a odd little voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | infinitive | Queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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