Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 186
The giant awoke and called, "Are you asleep?"
Who acts: giant, you · What happens: awake, call, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 called | cc |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asleep | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asleep | punct |
| 8 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 asleep | cop |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 asleep | nsubj |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 called | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the giant | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call speech: ask | past | the giant not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | asleep property | tree rules |
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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