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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 28

His heart beat fast--he did not know why--and as they both drew near the voice of the princess exclaimed, ‘Behold the bird without feathers and the bridge without an arch!’

Who acts: heart, Souci, alas · What happens: beat, not know, draw, exclaim · To what, where: voice

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Souci, alas), 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

nmod:possnsubjadvmodpunctnsubjauxadvmodconjadvmodpunctccmarknsubjnsubjparataxiscasedetoblcasedetnmodconjpunctpunctdiscoursedetccompcaseoblccdetconjcasedetoblpunctpunctrootHisPRONheartNOUNbeatVERBfastADV--PUNCThePRONdidAUXnotPARTknowVERBwhyADV--PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJtheyPRONbothDETdrewVERBnearADPtheDETvoiceNOUNofADPtheDETprincessNOUNexclaimedVERB,PUNCT‘PUNCTBeholdINTJtheDETbirdNOUNwithoutADPfeathersNOUNandCCONJtheDETbridgeNOUNwithoutADPanDETarchNOUN!PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 heartnmod:poss
2heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing3 beatnsubj
3beatbeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4fastfastADVDegree=Pos3 beatadvmod
5----PUNCT_9 knowpunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 knownsubj
7diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 knowaux
8notnotPARTPolarity=Neg9 knowadvmod
9knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf3 beatconj
10whywhyADVPronType=Int9 knowadvmod
11----PUNCT_16 drewpunct
12andandCCONJ_16 drewcc
13asasSCONJ_16 drewmark
14theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs16 drewnsubj
15bothbothDETPronType=Tot16 drewnsubj
16drewdrawVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 beatparataxis
17nearnearADP_19 voicecase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 voicedet
19voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing23 exclaimedobl
20ofofADP_22 princesscase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 princessdet
22princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing19 voicenmod
23exclaimedexclaimVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 drewconj
24,,PUNCT_28 birdpunct
25‘'PUNCT_28 birdpunct
26BeholdbeholdINTJ_28 birddiscourse
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 birddet
28birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing23 exclaimedccomp
29withoutwithoutADP_30 featherscase
30feathersfeatherNOUNNumber=Plur23 exclaimedobl
31andandCCONJ_33 bridgecc
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 bridgedet
33bridgebridgeNOUNNumber=Sing30 feathersconj
34withoutwithoutADP_36 archcase
35anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 archdet
36archarchNOUNNumber=Sing23 exclaimedobl
37!!PUNCT_3 beatpunct
38’'PUNCT_3 beatpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1beatpresentSouci's heartfast propertyvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2not knowpast · do-supportSoucivn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3drawpastalas = alavn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4exclaim speech: expresspastalas = ala not said herethe voice of the princesswithout feathers and the bridge; without a archvn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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.

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