Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 43
Guleesh handed her the cup, and she drank half of it, and then fell back on her bed and a heavy sleep came on her, and she never woke out of that sleep till the day on the morrow.
Who acts: Guleesh, harm, heavy sleep · What happens: hand, drink, fall back, come, not wake · To what, where: cup, harm, half, bed, sleep
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 (Guleesh, harm, heavy sleep), 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 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 handed | nsubj |
| 2 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 handed | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cup | det |
| 5 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 handed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drank | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drank | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drank | nsubj |
| 9 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 handed | conj |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 drank | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 half | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 fell | advmod |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 handed | parataxis |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bed | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sleep | det |
| 23 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sleep | amod |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fell | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 woke | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 woke | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 woke | nsubj |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 woke | advmod |
| 32 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 handed | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 sleep | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 sleep | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 sleep | det |
| 36 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 woke | obl |
| 37 | till | till | ADP | _ | 39 day | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 woke | obl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 morrow | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 morrow | det |
| 42 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 woke | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | Guleesh | the cup | harm | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination cup=Theme | |||
| 2 | drink | past | harm | half of half | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall back | past | harm's bed | then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bed=Location | ||||
| 4 | come | past | a heavy sleep | on harm | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Location | ||||
| 5 | not wake | past | harm | that sleep | day | on the morrow | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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