The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 47
When he went into the church the choir was singing, and one voice was so clear and beautiful, that he asked who it belonged to.
Who acts: boy, choir, one voice · What happens: go, sing, be, ask, belong · To what, where: church · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, choir, one 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 church | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 choir | det |
| 8 | choir | choir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 singing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 singing | aux |
| 10 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clear | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clear | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 voice | nummod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clear | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 clear | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 clear | advmod |
| 17 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 singing | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beautiful | cc |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clear | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 asked | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 asked | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asked | nsubj |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 singing | conj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 belonged | nsubj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 belonged | nsubj |
| 26 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 asked | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 belonged | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | boy | the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | the choir | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | one voice | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | one voice not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | belong | past | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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