The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 63

‘I seemed to hear a voice in the air which said: “Be firm, happen what may, and seek the Golden Branch,”’ answered the Grasshopper, ‘and I thought the command must be for me, so I started at once, though I don’t know the way.’

Who acts: I, air, Grasshopper, command · What happens: seem, hear, say, be, happen, seek · To what, where: voice, air, Golden Branch, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, air, Grasshopper, command), 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 seemed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 voice	det
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 air	acl:relcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 firm	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 firm	punct
15	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 firm	cop
16	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happen	punct
18	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 firm	parataxis
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happen	obj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 what	aux
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seek	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seek	cc
23	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Branch	det
25	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Branch	amod
26	Branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seek	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seek	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 answered	punct
30	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Grasshopper	det
32	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 answered	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ‘	punct
34	‘	‘	INTJ	_	32 Grasshopper	discourse
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 thought	cc
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 thought	nsubj
37	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 answered	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 command	det
39	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 me	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 me	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 me	cop
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 me	case
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 thought	ccomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 started	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	47 started	advmod
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 started	nsubj
47	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 once	case
49	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	47 started	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 know	punct
51	though	though	SCONJ	_	55 know	mark
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 know	nsubj
53	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 know	aux
54	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 know	advmod
55	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 started	conj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 way	det
57	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 know	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	I				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	hear	to-infinitive	I not said here	a voice	the air		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the air				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	infinitive				firm property	tree rules
5	happen in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
6	seek in a quote	infinitive	the air = air not said here	the Golden Branch			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
7	answer speech: assert	past	the Grasshopper				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	think speech: other	past	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	must	the command			for me	tree rules
10	start	past	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
11	not know	present · do-support	I	the way			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

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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