The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 23
‘But don’t you hear that voice calling me?’ she answered.
Who acts: you, voice, wife · What happens: not do, hear, call, answer · To what, where: voice, me · 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 (you, voice, wife), 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 | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 do | cc |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | parataxis |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obj |
| 9 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 voice | acl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 calling | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hear | present | you | that voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | that voice not said here | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | 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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