Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 7

For a while, she listened to the pleasant murmur of the sea, which was like a voice saying "Hush!" and bidding her go to sleep.

Who acts: Europa, pleasant murmur, voice · What happens: listen, be, say, bid, go, murmur · To what, where: Europa, sleep, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Europa, pleasant murmur, voice), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listened	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 while	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 listened	nsubj
6	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 murmur	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 murmur	det
9	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 murmur	amod
10	murmur	murmur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listened	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 murmur	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 voice	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 voice	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 voice	cop
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 voice	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 voice	det
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 murmur	parataxis
20	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 voice	acl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Hush	punct
22	Hush	hush	INTJ	_	20 saying	discourse
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 Hush	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Hush	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bidding	cc
26	bidding	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 saying	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bidding	obj
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 bidding	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 sleep	case
30	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	Europa			while	to the pleasant murmur of the sea	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to murmur=Theme
2	is	past	the pleasant murmur of the sea				like a voice	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	a voice not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	bid	gerund	a voice not said here	Europa				tree rules
5	go	infinitive	a voice not said here		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
6	murmur			the sea				nom murmur «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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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