The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 9
‘No,’ they replied, ‘there are not great numbers, for you see from time to time a voice is heard calling first one and then another, and whoever hears that voice gets up and goes away, and never comes back.’
Who acts: numbers, great numbers, you, voice, whoever · What happens: reply, be, see, hear, call, get up · To what, where: voice, one · 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, great numbers, you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 6 replied | cc |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 are | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 are | expl |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 great | advmod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 numbers | amod |
| 13 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 are | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 are | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | nmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 heard | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 heard | aux:pass |
| 25 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 time | acl:relcl |
| 26 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 heard | xcomp |
| 27 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 one | advmod |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 calling | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 another | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 another | advmod |
| 31 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 one | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hears | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hears | cc |
| 34 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 hears | nsubj |
| 35 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | advcl |
| 36 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 voice | det |
| 37 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gets | nsubj |
| 38 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 hears | ccomp |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 gets | compound:prt |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 goes | cc |
| 41 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 gets | conj |
| 42 | away | away | ADV | _ | 41 goes | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 comes | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 comes | cc |
| 45 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 46 comes | advmod |
| 46 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 hears | conj |
| 47 | back | back | ADV | _ | 46 comes | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | numbers = number | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | does | present | great numbers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | present | you | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hear | present · passive | a voice | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | call | gerund | a voice not said here | one | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | hear | present | whoever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | get up | present | that voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | go away | present | that voice not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | not come back | present | whoever not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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