The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 125
His head was higher than the tallest trees, and he sang in a terrible voice:
Who acts: head, help · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: terrible voice
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, help), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 higher | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 higher | cop |
| 4 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 7 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 trees | amod |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 higher | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sang | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sang | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sang | nsubj |
| 12 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 higher | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sang | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 higher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | help's head | than the tallest trees; high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | help | a terrible voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location |
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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