The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 84
And sometimes they thought they heard a call, but it was never the voice of Snowflake.
Who acts: Ivan, call · What happens: think, hear, not be · To what, where: call, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, call), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 thought | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 call | det |
| 8 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 voice | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 voice | cop |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 voice | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Snowflake | case |
| 17 | Snowflake | Snowflake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Ivan | sometimes property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Ivan | a call | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | call | the voice | of Snowflake | tree rules |
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.
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