Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 223
At the time of breaking the watch, the giant's daughter said that she felt her father's breath burning her back.
Who acts: time, daughter · What happens: break, say, feel, burn · To what, where: watch, breath, 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 (time, daughter), 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 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 breaking | mark |
| 5 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 time | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 watch | det |
| 7 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breaking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 giant | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 felt | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 breath | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 father | case |
| 20 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | obj |
| 21 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 felt | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burning | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | gerund | the time not said here | the watch | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer watch=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the giant's daughter | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | daughter | daughter's father's breath | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | daughter not said here | 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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