Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 17

As Gellert raised his dying yell, a little child's cry answered it from beneath the cradle, and there Llewelyn found his child unharmed and just awakened from sleep.

Who acts: Gellert, cry, little child · What happens: raise, die, answer, find, awaken, yell · To what, where: dying yell, yell, cradle, child, sleep

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gellert, cry, little child), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 raised	mark
2	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 raised	nsubj
3	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 yell	nmod:poss
5	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 yell	amod
6	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raised	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 raised	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 child	amod
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cry	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 child	case
12	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	nsubj
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 answered	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 cradle	case
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	18 cradle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cradle	det
18	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 found	expl
22	Llewelyn	Llewelyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 there	flat
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 child	nmod:poss
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obj
26	unharmed	unharmed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 found	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 awakened	cc
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 awakened	advmod
29	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 unharmed	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 sleep	case
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 awakened	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	past	Gellert	Gellert's dying yell			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Theme
2	die	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	answer speech: assert	past	a little child's cry	yell	the cradle		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	find	past	a little child's cry not said here	Gellert's child	there	unharmed property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
5	awaken	participle	a little child's cry not said here		sleep		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	yell		Gellert				nom yell «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	cry		a little child				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/25/17/