The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 17
And the harp played a very soft, sad air.
Who acts: harp · What happens: play · To what, where: soft sad air
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harp), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 played | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 harp | det |
| 3 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | nsubj |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 soft | advmod |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 air | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 soft | punct |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 air | amod |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the harp | a soft sad air | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
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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