The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 66
In the midst of his grief he thought he heard a voice singing, and looked round, but could see no one.
Who acts: King, voice · What happens: think, hear, sing, look, see · To what, where: midst, voice, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 grief | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 grief | nmod:poss |
| 6 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 voice | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 17 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looked | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 see | cc |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 heard | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | King | the midst of King's grief | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | King | a voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | a voice not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past | King not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | could | King not said here | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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