The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 75
His voice was shrill, but very clear.
Who acts: voice · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 voice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shrill | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shrill | cop |
| 4 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clear | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 clear | cc |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 clear | advmod |
| 8 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shrill | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shrill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Emperor's voice | shrill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Emperor's voice not said here | tree rules |
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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