Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 200

At the mouth of day, the giant's daughter said that her father's breath was burning her back.

Who acts: daughter, breath · What happens: say, burn · To what, where: mouth, back · 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 (daughter, breath), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 mouth	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouth	det
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mouth	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mouth	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 giant	case
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 burning	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 breath	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 father	case
16	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burning	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 burning	aux
18	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 back	nmod:poss
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burning	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the giant's daughter			the mouth of day			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	burn	past · progressive	daughter's father's breath	daughter's back					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme

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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