Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 2

Dear me," said Tom, "but isn't it surprising to hear the stonechatters singing so late in the season?"

Who acts: Tom, stonechatters · What happens: say, not be, hear, sing · To what, where: stonechatters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, stonechatters), 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	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Dear	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dear	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Dear	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Tom	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Tom	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 surprising	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 surprising	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 surprising	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 surprising	expl
13	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hear	mark
15	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 surprising	csubj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stonechatters	det
17	stonechatters	stonechatter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hear	obj
18	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stonechatters	acl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 late	advmod
20	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 hear	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 season	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 season	det
23	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 late	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 surprising	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 surprising	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Tom			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is	present	Tom not said here		surprising property	tree rules
3	hear	to-infinitive		the stonechatters	late property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stonechatter=Stimulus
4	sing speech: express	gerund	the stonechatters not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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