Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 42
Did I not hear you speaking to the king's son in the palace to-night?
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not hear, speak · To what, where: palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hear | advmod |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 speaking | nsubj |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 hear | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 son | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speaking | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speaking | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 to | punct |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 palace | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past · do-support | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | you | the palace to night | to the king's son | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to son=Co-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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