Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 49
And she answered him: "I slept, thank you."
Who acts: harm · What happens: answer, sleep, thank · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 slept | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 slept | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 slept | nsubj |
| 8 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thank | punct |
| 10 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slept | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 thank | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | harm | man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | past | harm | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | harm not said here | man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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