Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 176
Just then we could be hearing the footsteps of the giant, 'What shall I do? what shall I do?' cried the woman.
Who acts: we, I · What happens: hear, do, cry · To what, where: footsteps, woman
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 (we, I), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 hearing | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 hearing | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hearing | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hearing | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hearing | aux |
| 6 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 cried | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 footsteps | det |
| 8 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hearing | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 giant | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 footsteps | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 do | advcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 do | obj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hearing | parataxis |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearing | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearing | punct |
| 25 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woman | det |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cried | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could · progressive | we | the footsteps of the giant | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | shall | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | shall | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
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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