Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 119
About eleven o'clock, while the master was in great spirits, he felt something clammy hit him on the cheek.
Who acts: master, eleven o'clock, something · What happens: be, feel, hit · To what, where: great spirits, master
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, eleven o'clock, something), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 eleven | advmod |
| 2 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o'clock | nummod |
| 3 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spirits | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 spirits | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 master | det |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spirits | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spirits | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 spirits | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spirits | amod |
| 11 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 o'clock | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 o'clock | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 hit | nsubj |
| 16 | clammy | clammy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 something | amod |
| 17 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 felt | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hit | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 cheek | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cheek | det |
| 21 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hit | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the master | great spirits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | eleven o'clock and great spirits | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hit | past | something | master | on the cheek | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on cheek=Patient |
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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