The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 157
‘Scarcely alive--almost starved to death,’ answered Martin in a weak voice.
What happens: starve, answer · To what, where: Martin, weak voice
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 alive | punct |
| 2 | Scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 alive | amod |
| 3 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 starved | punct |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 starved | advmod |
| 6 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 alive | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 starved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 alive | parataxis |
| 12 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | participle | to death; almost property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Martin | a weak voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent martin=Eventuality |
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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