The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 172

‘Do you hear that?’ whispered he.

Who acts: you · What happens: hear, whisper · To what, where: that, Stan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	4 hear	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 whispered	ccomp
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hear	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
8	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 whispered	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · do-support	you	that					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	whisper speech: assert	past		Stan					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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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