The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 28
No sooner had the heathen king heard this touching song sung by such a lovely voice, than he had the singer brought before him.
Who acts: heathen king, song, singer · What happens: have, hear, sing, bring · To what, where: touching song
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 (heathen king, song, singer), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | compound |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 song | det |
| 9 | touching | touching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 song | compound |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 11 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 song | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 voice | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sung | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 singer | det |
| 22 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | nsubj |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 had | ccomp |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the heathen king | this touching song | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | participle | this touching song not said here | by such lovely voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by voice=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | past | song | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bring | past | the singer | before song | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
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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