Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 190
A while after this he called again: "Are your asleep?"
Who acts: while · What happens: 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 (while), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 while | det |
| 2 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 while | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 called | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 called | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asleep | punct |
| 10 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asleep | cop |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 asleep | nmod:poss |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 called | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 asleep | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: ask | past | a while after this | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | 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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