English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 58
And she had heard the middle voice, of the Middle Bear, but it was only as if she had heard some one speaking in a dream.
Who acts: Woman, one · What happens: hear, speak · To what, where: middle voice, voice, dream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Bears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woman, one), 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 heard | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bear | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Bear | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bear | det |
| 11 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bear | compound |
| 12 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 heard | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux:pass |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 heard | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 heard | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 heard | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obj |
| 25 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 one | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 dream | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dream | det |
| 28 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 speaking | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | Woman | the middle voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | voice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | some one not said here | a dream | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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