The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 32

When Prince Fickle heard her voice it seemed to him to remind him of something, but of what he couldn’t remember, for he hadn’t heard the words distinctly, as Helena had only spoken them very low and with a shaky voice.

Who acts: Prince, it · What happens: hear, seem, remind, not remember, not hear, speak · To what, where: voice, Prince, words, Helena · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, it), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
3	Fickle	Fickle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Prince	flat
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seemed	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 voice	nmod:poss
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seemed	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 remind	mark
12	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seemed	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 remind	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 something	case
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 remind	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 remember	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 remember	cc
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 what	case
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 remember	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 remember	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 remember	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 remember	advmod
23	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seemed	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 heard	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 heard	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 heard	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 heard	aux
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 heard	advmod
29	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 remember	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 words	det
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 heard	obj
32	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	29 heard	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spoken	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 spoken	mark
35	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 spoken	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 spoken	aux
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 spoken	advmod
38	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 heard	parataxis
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 spoken	obj
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 low	advmod
41	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 spoken	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 voice	cc
43	with	with	ADP	_	46 voice	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 voice	det
45	shaky	shaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 voice	amod
46	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 low	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Prince	Helena's voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	seem	past	it		Prince		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	remind speech: other	to-infinitive			Prince	of something	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of something=Topic
4	not remember	could	Prince				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme
5	not hear	past · perfect	Prince	the words		distinctly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
6	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Helena		low property	tree rules

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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