The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 20
After she had played for some time she began to sing, and her voice was sweeter than the lark’s:
Who acts: idea, voice · What happens: play, begin, sing, be · To what, where: time
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 played | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 played | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | aux |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sing | mark |
| 11 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sweeter | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sweeter | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sweeter | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sweeter | cop |
| 17 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 played | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 lark | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lark | det |
| 20 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sweeter | obl |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 lark | case |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · perfect | idea | time | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | idea | some time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | idea not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | idea's voice | than the lark; sweet property | 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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