The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 1
‘She certainly sings perfectly; but there is no tenderness, no heart in her voice.’
Who acts: She, tenderness · What happens: sing, be
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She, tenderness), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sings | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sings | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 sings | advmod |
| 4 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 4 sings | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 is | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sings | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 tenderness | det |
| 11 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heart | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 heart | det |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tenderness | appos |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heart | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sings | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | She | certainly, perfectly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no tenderness | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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