The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 27
The King at once recognised his friend’s voice, and answered very faintly:
Who acts: King · What happens: recognise, answer · To what, where: voice
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 recognised | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 recognised | obl |
| 5 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 friend | case |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recognised | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 answered | cc |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recognised | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 faintly | advmod |
| 14 | faintly | faintly | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | the King | King's friend's voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the King not said here | faintly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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