The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 17
But one day, while they were all sitting together round the table, his wife suddenly started up, exclaiming in a loud voice:
Who acts: people · What happens: sit, start up, exclaim · To what, where: one day, loud voice
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 (people), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 started | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 started | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 sitting | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sitting | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sitting | aux |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 sitting | advmod |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 day | acl |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 sitting | advmod |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 table | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 table | det |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wife | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 17 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 18 started | advmod |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 started | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 exclaiming | punct |
| 21 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 started | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 24 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voice | amod |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 exclaiming | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | people | one day and voice's wife not said here | round the table; all, together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme | |||
| 2 | start up | past | day | suddenly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | a loud voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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