Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 56
Happily a melodious voice struck in, and interrupted the quarrel.
Who acts: melodious voice · What happens: strike in, interrupt · To what, where: quarrel
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (melodious voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happily | happily | ADV | _ | 5 struck | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 3 | melodious | melodious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | amod |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 struck | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 interrupted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 interrupted | cc |
| 9 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 quarrel | det |
| 11 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 interrupted | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike in | participle | a melodious voice | happily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | interrupt | past | a melodious voice not said here | the quarrel | tree rules |
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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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