Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 100
He could kill the salmon of the torrent from out his own door, and the deer of the grey gorge from out his window.
Who acts: colour, deer · What happens: kill, window · To what, where: salmon, own door
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colour, deer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | aux |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 salmon | det |
| 5 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kill | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 torrent | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 torrent | det |
| 8 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 salmon | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 from | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 door | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 door | amod |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kill | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 window | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 window | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deer | det |
| 17 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 window | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gorge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gorge | det |
| 20 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gorge | amod |
| 21 | gorge | gorge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deer | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 out | case |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 gorge | compound |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 window | nmod:poss |
| 25 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kill | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | could | colour | the salmon of the torrent | colour's own door | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme from door=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | window | the deer of the grey gorge | 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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