The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 39
I warned and implored her to pay no heed to that voice, however loudly it might call.’
Who acts: I, heed · What happens: warn, implore, pay, call · To what, where: wife, heed · 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 (I, heed), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 warned | nsubj |
| 2 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 implored | cc |
| 4 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 warned | conj |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 implored | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pay | mark |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 implored | xcomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 heed | det |
| 9 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 14 | however | however | ADV | _ | 15 loudly | advmod |
| 15 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 18 call | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 call | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 call | aux |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 warned | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past | I | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | implore | past | I not said here | wife | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | I not said here | no heed | to that voice | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | |||
| 4 | call | might | heed | loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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