The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 104
Milan sighed deeply when he heard what the little dove said.
Who acts: Milan, little dove · What happens: sigh, hear, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Milan, little dove), 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 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sighed | nsubj |
| 2 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 2 sighed | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sighed | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 said | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dove | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dove | amod |
| 10 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | Milan | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Milan | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little dove | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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