Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 14
Good heavens! who was calling him, and not a soul in sight?
Who acts: Good heavens · What happens: call · To what, where: Andrew · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good heavens), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 heavens | amod |
| 2 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 calling | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 heavens | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 calling | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 calling | aux |
| 6 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 calling | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 soul | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 soul | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 soul | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 soul | det |
| 12 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calling | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 soul | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 calling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · progressive | Good heavens | Andrew | a soul in sight obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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