The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 48
But now no merry song or noise of mirth was heard from it.
Who acts: mirth · What happens: hear, noise · To what, where: merry song, noise
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mirth), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 song | advmod |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 song | det |
| 4 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 song | amod |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 noise | cc |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 song | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mirth | case |
| 9 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux:pass |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | no merry song or noise of mirth | noise | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from it=Source | ||||
| 2 | noise | mirth | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/15/48/