The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 37
She looked very young and very sad, and in a sweet little voice that went straight to his heart she said to the Prince:
Who acts: sideboard, sweet little voice · What happens: look, go, say · To what, where: heart, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sideboard, sweet little 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sad | cc |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 sad | advmod |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 young | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 voice | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 voice | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 voice | acl:relcl |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 20 heart | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heart | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Prince | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Prince | det |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | sideboard | in a sweet little voice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in voice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | a sweet little voice | party's heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | sideboard | party's heart not said here | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Topic to prince=Recipient |
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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