The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 110
And it cried again, and a voice replied:
Who acts: plan, voice · What happens: cry, reply
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, voice), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cried | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 replied | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cried | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | plan | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | a voice | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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