The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 30

Then she answered, ‘It seems so to me too; I think I hear my father blowing his horn.’

Who acts: voice, It, I, father · What happens: answer, seem, think, hear, blow · To what, where: me, father, horn · 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 (voice, It, I, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 answered	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seems	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 seems	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seems	nsubj
7	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	ccomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 me	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 seems	obl
11	too	too	ADV	_	7 seems	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hear	nsubj
16	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 think	ccomp
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obj
19	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 father	acl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 horn	nmod:poss
21	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blowing	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	voice			then	tree rules
2	seem	present	It		me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	hear	infinitive	I	my father			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
5	blow	gerund	my father not said here	king's horn			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient

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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