The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 56
So he too, like the others, had been forced against his will to follow the voice that called him.
Who acts: man, voice · What happens: force, follow, call · To what, where: man, 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 (man, voice), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 forced | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 he | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 others | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 others | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 others | det |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 he | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 others | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 forced | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 forced | aux:pass |
| 11 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 16 follow | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 follow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 follow | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 follow | mark |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 forced | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 follow | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 called | nsubj |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 voice | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 called | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · perfect · passive | man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | follow | future | man not said here | the voice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | past | the voice | man | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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