Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 101
Naois and Deirdre and Allen and Arden dwelt in a tower, and they were happy so long a time as they were there.
Who acts: Naois · What happens: dwell, be · To what, where: tower, time
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 (Naois), 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 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dwelt | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Deirdre | cc |
| 3 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Naois | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Allen | cc |
| 5 | Allen | Allen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Naois | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Arden | cc |
| 7 | Arden | Arden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Naois | conj |
| 8 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tower | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tower | det |
| 11 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dwelt | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happy | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happy | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 happy | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happy | cop |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dwelt | parataxis |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 happy | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 long | nsubj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 there | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 there | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 there | cop |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 time | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | Naois and Deirdre and Allen and Arden | a tower | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Naois | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Naois | a time not said here | there 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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