The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 29
As soon as the day broke the voice from the stove called out, ‘It seems to be daylight outside.’
Who acts: day, It · What happens: break, call out, seem, be · To what, where: voice, stove, daylight
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), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 broke | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 broke | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 stove | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stove | det |
| 11 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stove | acl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 called | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seems | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 seems | punct |
| 16 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seems | nsubj |
| 17 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 broke | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 daylight | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 daylight | cop |
| 20 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seems | xcomp |
| 21 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 20 daylight | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 seems | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the day | the voice | from the stove; soon property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent voice=Patient from stove=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | the stove not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | daylight | 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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