The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 77
Just then he heard a voice from the shore, ‘Good evening, Christian, where are you going?’
Who acts: remainder, you · What happens: hear, go · To what, where: voice, shore
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 (remainder, you), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 shore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shore | det |
| 9 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 evening | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 evening | punct |
| 12 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 evening | amod |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 going | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Christian | punct |
| 15 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 evening | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 going | advmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 going | nsubj |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | advcl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | remainder | a voice | the shore | then | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent voice=Topic from shore=Source | ||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | you | evening | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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