Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 8
But before the word was well out of his mouth, another man cried out: "Ora!
Who acts: word, man · What happens: be, cry out · To what, where: mouth, Ora
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 (word, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 mouth | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouth | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mouth | cop |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 mouth | advmod |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mouth | punct |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cried | compound:prt |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ora | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ora | punct |
| 18 | Ora | Ora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the word | horse's mouth | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | another man | Ora | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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