Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 104
So he prepared a great and gleeful feast.
Who acts: Connachar · What happens: prepare · To what, where: great feast
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 (Connachar), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 prepared | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prepared | nsubj |
| 3 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feast | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gleeful | cc |
| 7 | gleeful | gleeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 great | conj |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prepared | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | Connachar | a great feast | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient |
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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