The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 10
‘And do they see the person who calls them,’ he asked, ‘or do they only hear his voice?’
Who acts: numbers, person · What happens: see, call, ask, hear · To what, where: person, numbers, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (numbers, person), 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 see | cc |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 calls | nsubj |
| 9 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 person | acl:relcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 calls | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ‘ | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ‘ | SYM | _ | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 hear | cc |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hear | aux |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hear | nsubj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 hear | advmod |
| 21 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 voice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hear | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | numbers = number | the person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | present | the person | numbers = number | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | person | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hear | present · do-support | numbers = number | person's voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
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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