Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 133

"Did you ever, O king, hear a cat purring over a bowl of broth, or the buzzing of beetles in the twilight, or a shrill tongued old woman scolding your head off?"

Who acts: king, cat, shrill · What happens: do, hear, purr, tongue, scold off · To what, where: you, cat, bowl, old woman, head

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 (king, cat, shrill), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Did	punct
2	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	advcl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Did	obj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 Did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	9 hear	discourse
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 king	punct
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	obj
12	purring	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cat	acl
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 bowl	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bowl	det
15	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 purring	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 broth	case
17	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bowl	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 buzzing	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 buzzing	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 buzzing	det
21	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bowl	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 beetles	case
23	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 buzzing	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 twilight	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 twilight	det
26	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beetles	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tongued	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 tongued	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shrill	det
30	shrill	shrill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tongued	nsubj
31	tongued	tongue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	parataxis
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woman	amod
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tongued	obj
34	scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 tongued	advcl
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 scolding	obj
37	off	off	ADP	_	34 scolding	compound:prt
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	do in a quote	past	king not said here	you		ever	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
2	hear in a quote	infinitive	king	a cat			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
3	purr in a quote	gerund	a cat not said here		a bowl of broth or the buzzing of beetles in the twilight		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bowl=Location
4	tongue in a quote	past	a shrill	old woman			tree rules
5	scold off in a quote	gerund	a shrill not said here	your head			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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