The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 35

In the midst of her grief she suddenly heard her mother’s voice speak from the grave, and say to her:

Who acts: girl · What happens: hear, say · To what, where: voice speak, midst, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	9 heard	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 grief	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grief	nmod:poss
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 midst	nmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	9 heard	advmod
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 speak	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 mother	case
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 speak	compound
14	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 grave	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grave	det
17	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 say	cc
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heard	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 say	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	girl	girl's mother's voice speak		the midst of girl's grief		from the grave; suddenly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent speak=Topic from grave=Source
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	girl not said here		girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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