The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 81
She could sing, too, with a voice more soft and sweet than had ever been heard before.
Who acts: woman · What happens: sing, hear
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sing | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | aux |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 sing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soft | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soft | obl |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 soft | advmod |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sing | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sweet | cc |
| 13 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 soft | conj |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 heard | mark |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 heard | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 heard | aux:pass |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 soft | parataxis |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 heard | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | could | woman | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect · passive | ever | before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
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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