English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 47
(_At the top of the voice, with a wave of the arm and a stamp of the feet.
What happens: wave · To what, where: arm
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 top | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 top | punct |
| 3 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wave | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wave | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wave | det |
| 12 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 arm | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 arm | det |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wave | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stamp | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stamp | det |
| 18 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wave | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 feet | det |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stamp | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 top | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | the arm | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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