The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 79

He said it was quite true, for he had seen her beauty with his own eyes, and had heard with his own ears how sweetly she could sing and what a lovely voice she had.

Who acts: stepson, palace, girl · What happens: say, be, see, hear, sing, have · To what, where: beauty, lovely voice · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stepson, palace, girl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 true	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seen	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 seen	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seen	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 beauty	nmod:poss
13	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eyes	amod
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seen	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 heard	cc
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 ears	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 ears	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ears	amod
25	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 heard	obl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 sweetly	advmod
27	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	30 sing	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sing	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sing	aux
30	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 heard	ccomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 what	cc
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 sing	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 voice	det
34	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 voice	amod
35	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 what	nsubj
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 voice	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	stepson			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	palace		true property	tree rules
3	see	past · perfect	stepson	girl's beauty	with stepson's own eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus
4	hear	past · perfect	stepson not said here		with stepson's own ears	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	sing speech: express	could	girl		sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
6	have	past	girl	a lovely voice not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient

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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