The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 71

She had an exquisite voice, but whether her songs were grave or gay it did not matter, she did not seem to know what they meant; and everyone who heard her said:

Who acts: Sabella, songs, it, everyone · What happens: have, be, not matter, not seem, know, mean · To what, where: exquisite voice, Sabella · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sabella, songs, it, everyone), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 voice	det
4	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 matter	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 matter	cc
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 grave	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 songs	nmod:poss
10	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grave	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grave	cop
12	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 matter	advcl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 gay	cc
14	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grave	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 matter	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 matter	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 matter	advmod
18	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seem	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seem	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seem	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 seem	advmod
23	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 matter	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 know	mark
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seem	xcomp
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 know	obj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 meant	nsubj
28	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 what	acl:relcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
31	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	35 said	nsubj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 heard	nsubj
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 everyone	acl:relcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	obj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Sabella	a exquisite voice		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
2	is	past	Sabella's songs		grave property	tree rules
3	be		Sabella's songs not said here			tree rules
4	not matter	past · do-support	it			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	not seem	past · do-support	Sabella			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	know	to-infinitive	Sabella not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
7	mean	past	songs = song			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
8	hear	past		Sabella		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
9	say speech: assert	past	everyone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	sing		Sabella			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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