Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 63

But her voice was too faint for her mother to hear.

Who acts: voice, mother · What happens: be, hear

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (voice, mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 faint	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 voice	nmod:poss
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faint	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 faint	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 faint	advmod
6	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 hear	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hear	mark
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 faint	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 faint	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ceres's voice					faint property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	Ceres's mother						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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