The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 46
But soon the sound of a soft voice lamenting attracted his attention, and listening intently he heard it say--
Who acts: soft voice, King, attention · What happens: lament, attract, listen, hear, say, attend · To what, where: attention · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (soft voice, King, attention), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 sound | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sound | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nmod |
| 9 | lamenting | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 voice | acl |
| 10 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lamenting | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 attention | nmod:poss |
| 12 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attracted | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 15 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 heard | csubj |
| 16 | intently | intently | ADV | _ | 15 listening | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | obj |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 heard | xcomp |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lament | gerund | a soft voice not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | attract | participle | a soft voice not said here | King's attention | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | ||||
| 3 | listen | gerund | intently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | King | attention | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | infinitive | attention not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | attend | King | nom attention «cognition 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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