The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 102
Many voices joined in, and a hymn of praise was sung; then he heard the priest again, and heard his own name and that of the princess, and thought that he was being wedded to her.
Who acts: smith, praise · What happens: join in, sing, hear, think, wed, hymn · To what, where: Many voices, priest, own name, smith · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, praise), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 voices | amod |
| 2 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 voices | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 joined | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sung | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sung | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hymn | det |
| 8 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 praise | case |
| 10 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hymn | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sung | aux:pass |
| 12 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 heard | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sung | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 priest | det |
| 18 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 heard | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heard | cc |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 name | amod |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 princess | cc |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 princess | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 princess | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 princess | det |
| 30 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 name | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thought | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 thought | cc |
| 33 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 wedded | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 wedded | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 wedded | aux:pass |
| 37 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 wedded | aux:pass |
| 38 | wedded | wed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 thought | ccomp |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 wedded | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join in | participle | Many voices not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past · passive | Many voices | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | smith | the priest | then; again | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer priest=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | hear | past | smith not said here | smith's own name and the princess | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | smith not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wed | past · passive | smith | priest | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to she=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | hymn | praise | nom hymn «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | name | smith | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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