More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 14

I was digging away at old Mr. Fordyce's grave when I suppose I must have dropped asleep, and only woke up by hearing a cat's _Miaou_."

Who acts: I · What happens: dig away, suppose, drop, wake up, hear · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 digging	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 digging	aux
3	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 digging	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	10 grave	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grave	amod
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Fordyce	nmod:desc
8	Fordyce	Fordyce	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 grave	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Fordyce	case
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 digging	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 suppose	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 suppose	nsubj
13	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 digging	advcl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 dropped	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 dropped	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 dropped	aux
17	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 suppose	ccomp
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dropped	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 woke	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 woke	cc
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 woke	advmod
22	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 digging	parataxis
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 woke	compound:prt
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 hearing	mark
25	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 woke	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cat	det
27	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hearing	obj
28	's	's	PART	_	27 cat	case
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 Miaou	punct
30	Miaou	Miaou	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 hearing	obl
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 woke	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 digging	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 digging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dig away	past · progressive	I		at Fordyce Mr.'s old grave; away property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at grave=Theme
2	suppose	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	drop	must · perfect	I		asleep property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	wake up	past				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	hear	gerund		a cat	Miaou obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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