The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 15
‘All hail to you, great King!’ answered the girl, in a gentle, trembling voice.
Who acts: hail · What happens: answer, tremble · To what, where: girl, gentle trembling voice
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hail), 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 hail | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 hail | det |
| 3 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hail | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 King | amod |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hail | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 voice | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 17 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voice | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trembling | punct |
| 19 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 voice | amod |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | all hail to you | the girl | a gentle trembling voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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 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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