Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 44
Well, the soundness of deep sleep was over them all, when the cock took a notion of crowing.
Who acts: soundness, notion · What happens: be, take, crow · To what, where: notion
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soundness, notion), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 16 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soundness | det |
| 4 | soundness | soundness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sleep | amod |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soundness | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 them | cop |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sleep | nmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 took | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cock | det |
| 15 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 notion | det |
| 18 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 crowing | mark |
| 20 | crowing | crow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 notion | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | over trees = tree; all nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the soundness of deep sleep | a notion | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crow | gerund | a notion not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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