English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 26
The second said: “I weird her such a sweet voice as shall far exceed the nightingale.”
Who acts: second · What happens: say, exceed · To what, where: sweet voice, nightingale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 weird | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 weird | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 weird | nsubj |
| 7 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 weird | nsubj |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 voice | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 exceed | mark |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 exceed | aux |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 exceed | advmod |
| 16 | exceed | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nightingale | det |
| 18 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exceed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 exceed | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 exceed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the second | such sweet voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exceed in a quote | shall | the nightingale | far property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nightingale=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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