Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 126
"When he felt the birds calling in the morning, and knew that the day was, he said--'Art thou sleeping?
Who acts: leech, birds, day, thou · What happens: feel, call, know, be, say, sleep · To what, where: birds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leech, birds, day, thou), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 felt | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 birds | det |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 felt | obj |
| 7 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 birds | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knew | cc |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 Art | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Art | punct |
| 23 | Art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 sleeping | nsubj |
| 25 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 Art | xcomp |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | past | leech | the birds | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | gerund | the birds not said here | morning | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past | leech not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | past | the day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | leech | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sleep in a quote | gerund | thou | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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