The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 118
Suddenly a soft voice replied, ‘Be comforted, my child: I have come to help you.’
Who acts: soft voice, I · What happens: reply, comfort, come, help · To what, where: child, you
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 (soft voice, 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 3 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | amod |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 comforted | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 comforted | punct |
| 8 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 comforted | aux:pass |
| 9 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 child | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 child | nmod:poss |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comforted | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | a soft voice | suddenly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | comfort | infinitive · passive | a soft voice not said here | my child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | come | present · perfect | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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