The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 163
As he spoke he heard a voice calling: “Charming, Charming!”
Who acts: master, voice · What happens: speak, hear, call · To what, where: Charming, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (master, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 voice | acl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Charming | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Charming | punct |
| 11 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Charming | punct |
| 13 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Charming | appos |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Charming | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | master | Charming | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | master | a voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | a voice not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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