Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 39
So he got up and looked, and heard the monk speaking. "
Who acts: hole, monk · What happens: get up, look, hear, speak · To what, where: monk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, monk), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 monk | det |
| 11 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 monk | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | hole | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | look | past | hole not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | hole not said here | the monk | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer monk=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | the monk not said here | vn talk-37.5 «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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