Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 111

After looking up for a long time, the lank grey beggarman said: "I'm afraid the hound is eating the hare, and that our friend has fallen asleep."

Who acts: lank grey beggarman, hound, friend · What happens: look up, say, be, eat, fall · To what, where: hare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lank grey beggarman, hound, friend), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 looking	mark
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 looking	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 looking	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beggarman	det
10	lank	lank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beggarman	amod
11	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beggarman	amod
12	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 afraid	nsubj
17	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 afraid	cop
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hound	det
20	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eating	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 eating	aux
22	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 afraid	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hare	det
24	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eating	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fallen	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fallen	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 fallen	mark
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 friend	nmod:poss
29	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fallen	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fallen	aux
31	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 afraid	conj
32	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fallen	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look up	gerund	the lank grey beggarman not said here		time		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the lank grey beggarman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the lank grey beggarman = beggarman			afraid property	tree rules
4	eat in a quote	present · progressive	the hound	the hare			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Patient
5	fall in a quote	present · perfect	our friend			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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