The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 95

‘Wait a moment,’ answered a voice that seemed to come from somewhere very high up indeed.

Who acts: voice · What happens: wait, answer, seem, come · To what, where: voice · 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 (voice), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
2	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wait	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 voice	det
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 voice	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 somewhere	case
15	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 come	obl
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 high	advmod
17	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 come	advmod
18	up	up	ADV	_	19 indeed	advmod
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive			moment		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past		a voice			tree rules
3	seem	past	a voice				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	come	to-infinitive	a voice not said here			high, indeed property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from somewhere=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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