Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 36
"To-morrow, about two o'clock," replied Fin, with a groan.
Who acts: morrow · What happens: reply
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morrow), 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 | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 o'clock | punct |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 two | advmod |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 o'clock | nummod |
| 8 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morrow | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 groan | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 groan | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 groan | det |
| 16 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | morrow and two o'clock | vn respond-113 «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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