Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 9
And when the head had risen above the surface, there came from it a great, great voice.
Who acts: head · What happens: rise, come · To what, where: surface, great great voice, head
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 risen | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 head | det |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 risen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | aux |
| 6 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 7 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 surface | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 surface | det |
| 9 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 risen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 risen | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 came | expl |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 great | punct |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · perfect | the head | the surface | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above surface=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a great great voice | head; there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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