The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 11
‘They both see and hear him,’ was the answer.
Who acts: numbers · What happens: see, hear, be · To what, where: voice, answer · 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), 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 | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 answer | csubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hear | cc |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 answer | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 answer | det |
| 12 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | numbers = number | both property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | numbers = number not said here | voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | past | the answer | tree rules |
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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