Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 213

At the heat of day the giant's daughter felt her father's breath burning her back.

Who acts: daughter, day · What happens: feel, burn, heat · To what, where: breath, heat, back

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, day), 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 heat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heat	det
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heat	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 giant	case
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 breath	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 father	case
14	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obj
15	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 felt	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burning	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	feel	past	the giant's daughter	daughter's father's breath	the heat of day	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent breath=Theme at heat=Location
2	burn	gerund	the giant's daughter not said here	daughter's back		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
3	heat		day			nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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