The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 21
When the day broke, a voice called from the iron stove, ‘It seems to me that it is day outside.’
Who acts: day, It, stove · What happens: break, call, seem, be · To what, where: voice, iron stove, me, day · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, It, stove), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 broke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seems | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 voice | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 stove | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stove | det |
| 11 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stove | amod |
| 12 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
| 15 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seems | nsubj |
| 16 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seems | obl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 day | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 day | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 day | cop |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seems | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 22 day | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 seems | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the day | a voice | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a voice not said here | the iron stove | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from stove=Source | ||||
| 3 | seem | present | It | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | stove | day | outside 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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