English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 84

Just then the harp began singing again, and this was what it sang out loud and clear:

Who acts: harp, this, hair · What happens: begin, sing, be, sing out

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, this, hair), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 began	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 harp	det
4	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 began	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 singing	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 what	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	cop
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 began	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sang	nsubj
14	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 sang	advmod
16	loud	loud	ADV	_	14 sang	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 clear	cc
18	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sang	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the harp	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the harp not said here	again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	this			tree rules
4	sing out speech: express	past	hair		loud, out property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «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: «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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