The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 16
The following day, to the great astonishment of all the village, about two o’clock in the afternoon a voice was heard singing:
Who acts: voice · What happens: follow, hear, sing, astonish · To what, where: voice, village
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonishment | punct |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 astonishment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 astonishment | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 astonishment | amod |
| 8 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 village | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 astonishment | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 o’clock | punct |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 o’clock | advmod |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 o’clock | nummod |
| 16 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 village | appos |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 afternoon | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 afternoon | det |
| 19 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 o’clock | nmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 voice | det |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 heard | aux:pass |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 o’clock | acl:relcl |
| 24 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 heard | xcomp |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | a voice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | a voice not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | astonish | all village | nom astonishment «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 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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