Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 184

When she perceived that he was asleep, she set her mouth quietly to the hole that was in the lid, and she said to me 'was I alive?'

Who acts: fortune, giant, hole, I · What happens: perceive, be, set, say · To what, where: mouth, lid, me · 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 (fortune, giant, hole, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 perceived	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perceived	nsubj
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 set	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 asleep	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asleep	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asleep	cop
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 perceived	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 perceived	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	nsubj
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obj
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	10 set	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 hole	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hole	det
16	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lid	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lid	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 lid	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lid	det
21	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hole	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 set	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 said	obl
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 alive	cop
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 alive	nsubj
31	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 set	parataxis
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 alive	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	fortune					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	giant				asleep property	tree rules
3	set	past	fortune	fortune's mouth			to the hole; quietly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result
4	is	past	the hole			the lid		tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	fortune		me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
6	is	past	I				alive property	tree rules

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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