The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 42

As to his voice I can say nothing about that, for the bird never sang at all.

Who acts: I, bird · What happens: say, not sing · To what, where: nothing, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bird), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 voice	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 say	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 nothing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sang	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 sang	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bird	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sang	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 sang	advmod
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sang	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	I	nothing				as Saphir's voice; about that	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	not sing speech: express	past	the bird			all			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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