The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 200
So he shouted, not able to hear his own voice:
Who acts: house · What happens: shout, hear · To what, where: own voice
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 shouted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 able | advmod |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shouted | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voice | amod |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | house | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | house not said here | house's own voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=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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