Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 38
He fell asleep after that, and did not wake till it was night, and there was great hunger and great thirst on him.
Who acts: herb, cup, great hunger · What happens: fall, not wake, be
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herb, cup, great hunger), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | xcomp |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 fell | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wake | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wake | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wake | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 wake | advmod |
| 10 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fell | conj |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 night | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 night | cop |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wake | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | parataxis |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hunger | amod |
| 20 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thirst | cc |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thirst | amod |
| 23 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hunger | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thirst | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | herb | after that | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not wake | past · do-support | herb not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | cup | till night | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | past | great hunger and great thirst on herb | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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