English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 51
The second: “Let her voice be as harsh as a corn-crake's.”
Who acts: second · What happens: let, be · To what, where: voice, first
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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 Let | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
| 5 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Let | obj |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Let | obj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 harsh | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 harsh | advmod |
| 10 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Let | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 crake | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crake | det |
| 13 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crake | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 corn | punct |
| 15 | crake | crake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 harsh | obl |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 crake | case |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the second | voice | first | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient voice=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | the second not said here | as a corn crake; harsh property | tree rules |
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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