English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 79

And presently it began to sing by itself, low and clear, and the harper stopped and all were hushed.

Who acts: harp, harper · What happens: begin, sing, stop, hush · To what, where: low, all

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harp, harper), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	presently	presently	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sing	mark
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 sing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 low	punct
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clear	cc
12	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 low	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stopped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stopped	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 harper	det
16	harper	harper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stopped	nsubj
17	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hushed	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 hushed	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hushed	aux:pass
21	hushed	hush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 stopped	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	harp	low	presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	harp not said here		by harp	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location
3	stop	past	the harper			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	hush	past · passive		all		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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