The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 68
And inside it he distinctly heard a tiny voice say: “Bow-wow!”
Who acts: king, tiny voice · What happens: hear, say · To what, where: tiny voice, acorn · 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 (king, tiny 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 heard | cc |
| 2 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 6 heard | advmod |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 voice | amod |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 voice | acl:relcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 wow | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wow | punct |
| 13 | Bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wow | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 wow | punct |
| 15 | wow | wow | INTJ | _ | 6 heard | discourse |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 wow | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | king | a tiny voice | acorn | distinctly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a tiny voice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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