The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 36

‘Yet what she says sounds very sad and touching.’

Who acts: girl · What happens: say, touch · To what, where: sounds · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
2	Yet	yet	ADV	_	3 what	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 says	obj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 says	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 sad	advmod
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 touching	cc
10	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sad	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	girl	sounds					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme sound=Manner
2	touch	gerund	girl not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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