The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 60
The voice was that of a young man, and its sweetness of tone and the agreeable things it uttered, led one to infer that its owner must be equally charming; but this had to be a mere matter of fancy, for no one was visible.
Who acts: voice, young man, one, owner, this · What happens: be, utter, lead, infer, have · To what, where: agreeable things, one, mere matter
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (voice, young man, one, owner), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 voice | det |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 man | mark |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sweetness | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sweetness | cc |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sweetness | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tone | case |
| 14 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sweetness | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 things | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 things | det |
| 17 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 things | amod |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tone | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 uttered | nsubj |
| 20 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 things | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 22 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 led | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 infer | mark |
| 25 | infer | infer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 led | xcomp |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 charming | mark |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 owner | nmod:poss |
| 28 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 charming | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 charming | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 charming | cop |
| 31 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 32 charming | advmod |
| 32 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 infer | advcl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 had | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 had | cc |
| 35 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 led | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 matter | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 matter | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 matter | det |
| 40 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 matter | amod |
| 41 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 had | advcl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 fancy | case |
| 43 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 matter | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 visible | punct |
| 45 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 49 visible | mark |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 one | det |
| 47 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 visible | nsubj |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 visible | cop |
| 49 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 had | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the voice | of a young man and voice's sweetness of tone and the agreeable things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | voice | the agreeable things not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | a young man and voice's sweetness of tone and the agreeable things | one | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | infer | to-infinitive | one not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | must | voice's owner | charm, equally property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | this not said here | a mere matter | of fancy | tree rules | |||
| 8 | is | past | no one | visible property | tree rules |
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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