Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 183
Allen then cried out that he was getting faint and nigh-well giving up.
Who acts: Allen, Arden · What happens: cry out, get, give up
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Allen, Arden), 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 | Allen | Allen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cried | advmod |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 cried | compound:prt |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 getting | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 getting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 getting | aux |
| 8 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 cried | advcl |
| 9 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 getting | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 giving | cc |
| 11 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 14 giving | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 nigh | punct |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 giving | advmod |
| 14 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 getting | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 giving | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | Allen | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past · progressive | Arden | faint property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | give up | gerund | Arden not said here | nigh, well property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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