Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 45
She awoke at last when the sun had gone half its way through the heavens.
Who acts: harm, sun · What happens: awake, go · To what, where: last, way, heavens
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 (harm, sun), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 awoke | nsubj |
| 2 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 awoke | obl |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 gone | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 awoke | advcl |
| 10 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 12 way | det:predet |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 heavens | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heavens | det |
| 15 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gone | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | harm | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the sun | fear's way | the heavens | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through heaven=Initial_Location |
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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