The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 41
When I hear his happy voice as I travel along I shall think of you and thank you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: hear, travel, think, thank · To what, where: happy voice, you
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 (I), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 hear | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 travel | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voice | amod |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 travel | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 travel | nsubj |
| 9 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 travel | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 think | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thank | cc |
| 17 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 thank | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 travel | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | I | sire's happy voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | shall | I | of you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | present | I not said here | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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