The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’, sentence 10

But when she heard the little, small, wee voice of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, it was so sharp, and so shrill, that it awakened her at once.

Who acts: woman, voice · What happens: hear, be, awaken · To what, where: little, woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, voice), 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 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 voice	punct
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 voice	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 small	punct
10	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 voice	amod
11	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Little	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Little	det
14	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 voice	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Bear	punct
16	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Bear	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Small	punct
18	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Bear	amod
19	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 voice	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sharp	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sharp	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sharp	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 sharp	advmod
24	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shrill	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shrill	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 shrill	advmod
28	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sharp	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 awakened	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 awakened	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 awakened	nsubj
32	awakened	awaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sharp	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 awakened	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 once	case
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 awakened	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	woman	the little	small wee voice of the Little and Small Wee Bear obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus
2	is	past	voice		sharp property	tree rules
3	be		voice not said here			tree rules
4	awaken	past	voice	woman		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=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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