The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 68

The old greybeard uttered no word, and when his companion tried to ask him the meaning of it all he felt that his voice died in his throat.

Who acts: old greybeard, companion, voice · What happens: utter, try, ask, feel, die · To what, where: word, meaning, companion

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old greybeard, companion, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 greybeard	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 greybeard	amod
3	greybeard	greybeard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uttered	nsubj
4	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uttered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tried	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 tried	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 companion	nmod:poss
11	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tried	nsubj
12	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uttered	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ask	mark
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ask	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 meaning	det
17	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ask	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 meaning	appos
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 it	det
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 felt	nsubj
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 all	acl:relcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 died	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 voice	nmod:poss
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 died	nsubj
26	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 felt	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 throat	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 throat	nmod:poss
29	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 died	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 uttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	past	the old greybeard	no word			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	try	past	greybeard's companion				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	greybeard's companion not said here	the meaning	companion		tree rules
4	feel	past	companion				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	die	past	greybeard's voice			in greybeard's throat	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in throat=Attribute

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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