Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 37
He hadn't sat for a moment when he heard voices.
Who acts: Andrew · What happens: not sit, hear · To what, where: voices
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 (Andrew), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sat | advmod |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 heard | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | advcl |
| 11 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heard | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sit | past · perfect | Andrew | moment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Andrew | voices | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
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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