English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 66

“Can't quite hear you; won't you come a _little_ closer?” said the fox in a feeble voice, as he stretched out his neck towards Johnny-cake, and put one paw behind his ear.

Who acts: you, fox · What happens: not hear, not come, say, stretch out, put · To what, where: you, _ little, feeble voice, neck, one paw, ear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fox), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
2	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hear	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 hear	advmod
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 come	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hear	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 _	det
13	_	_	SYM	_	14 little	compound
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 come	obl:unmarked
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 closer	punct
16	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 come	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fox	det
21	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 voice	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 voice	det
24	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 voice	amod
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stretched	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 stretched	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stretched	nsubj
29	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 stretched	compound:prt
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 neck	nmod:poss
32	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stretched	obj
33	towards	towards	ADP	_	36 cake	case
34	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 cake	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Johnny	punct
36	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stretched	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 put	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 put	cc
39	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 said	parataxis
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 paw	nummod
41	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 put	obj
42	behind	behind	ADP	_	44 ear	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 ear	nmod:poss
44	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 put	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hear in a quote	can		you			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	not come in a quote	future	you	_ little			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	the fox		a feeble voice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stretch out	past	fox	fox's neck		towards Johnny cake	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient towards cake=Recipient
5	put	infinitive		one paw	fox's ear		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme behind ear=Destination

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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