The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 119
‘Never mind,’ said the emperor, whose anger had dropped before the silvery tones of the boy’s voice.
Who acts: anger · What happens: not mind, say, drop, intonate · To what, where: emperor, silvery tones, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger), 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dropped | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 anger | nmod:poss |
| 11 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dropped | aux |
| 13 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 emperor | acl:relcl |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 tones | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tones | det |
| 16 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tones | amod |
| 17 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dropped | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 voice | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 voice | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 boy | case |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tones | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the emperor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drop | past · perfect | anger | the silvery tones of the boy's voice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme before tone=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | intonate | the boy's voice | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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 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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