The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 105

Ciccu did as the horse told him, and a voice was heard in answer that seemed to come from a very long way off.

Who acts: Ciccu, horse, answer · What happens: do, tell, hear, seem, come · To what, where: Ciccu, voice, answer, long way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, horse, answer), 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	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 told	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 voice	det
11	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux:pass
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 told	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 answer	case
15	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 answer	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seemed	xcomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	24 way	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 way	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 way	amod
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
25	off	off	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ciccu					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the horse		Ciccu			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	hear	past · passive		a voice		answer		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	seem	past	answer					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	come	to-infinitive	answer not said here			a long way	off property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from way=Initial_Location

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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