Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 21
She was awakened in the morning by a great shout.
Who acts: great shout · What happens: awaken · To what, where: Becfola
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great shout), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awakened | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awakened | aux:pass |
| 3 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awakened | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 shout | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shout | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shout | amod |
| 10 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awakened | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | a great shout | Becfola | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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