The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’, sentence 9
And she had heard the middle voice of the Middle Bear, but it was only as if she had heard someone speaking in a dream.
Who acts: woman · What happens: hear, speak · To what, where: middle voice, voice, dream · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 heard | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Bear | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bear | det |
| 10 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bear | compound |
| 11 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux:pass |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 heard | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 heard | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 heard | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 22 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 heard | obj |
| 23 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 someone | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 dream | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dream | det |
| 26 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 speaking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | woman | the middle voice of the Middle Bear | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | voice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | a dream | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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