The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 20
While he was still writing he heard a voice which attracted his attention in spite of himself.
Who acts: Love, voice · What happens: write, hear, attract, attend, spite · To what, where: voice, attention, spite, Love
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Love, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 writing | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 writing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 writing | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 writing | advmod |
| 5 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 heard | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 attracted | nsubj |
| 11 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 voice | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 attention | nmod:poss |
| 13 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attracted | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 spite | case |
| 15 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attracted | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 spite | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · progressive | Love | still | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Love | a voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | attract | past | a voice | Love's attention | spite of Love | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | |||
| 4 | attend | Love | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | spite | Love | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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