The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 14
It was a little room below the King’s own bed-chamber, and was so ingeniously built that the softest whisper in it was plainly heard in the King’s room.
Who acts: way · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: little room, own bed chamber, softest whisper, room
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (way), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 room | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 room | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 room | amod |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | below | below | ADP | _ | 13 chamber | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chamber | amod |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chamber | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 bed | punct |
| 13 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 built | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 built | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 built | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 built | advmod |
| 18 | ingeniously | ingeniously | ADV | _ | 19 built | advmod |
| 19 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 room | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 heard | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 whisper | det |
| 22 | softest | soft | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 whisper | amod |
| 23 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 whisper | nmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 heard | aux:pass |
| 27 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 28 heard | advmod |
| 28 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 built | advcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 room | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 room | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 King | case |
| 33 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 heard | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 room | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | way | a little room | the King's own bed chamber | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | build, ingeniously property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | the softest whisper in way | the King's room | plainly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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