Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 91

What piercing, shrill cry is that--the most melodious my ear ever heard, and the shrillest that ever struck my heart of all the cries I ever heard?" "

Who acts: melodious ear, I · What happens: be, strike, hear · To what, where: piercing, heart, cries

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 (melodious ear, 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cry	punct
4	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cry	amod
5	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piercing	conj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	cop
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 heard	mark
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ear	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 melodious	advmod
11	melodious	melodious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ear	amod
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ear	nmod:poss
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	nsubj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 heard	advmod
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 piercing	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shrillest	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shrillest	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shrillest	det
19	shrillest	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 heard	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 struck	obj
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 struck	advmod
22	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shrillest	acl:relcl
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heart	nmod:poss
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 cries	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 cries	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cries	det
28	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heart	nmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 heard	nsubj
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 heard	advmod
31	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 cries	acl:relcl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	my melodious ear	piercing and shrill cry not said here	ever	hear property	tree rules
2	strike	past		my heart of all cries	ever		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent that=Patient heart=Result
3	hear	participle	I	all cries not said here	ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=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: «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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