Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 116
There came three white doves out of the South Flying over the sea, And drops of honey were in their mouth From the hive of the honey-bee.
What happens: come, drop, be · To what, where: three white doves, sea, hive, mouth
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 came | expl |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 doves | nummod |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 doves | amod |
| 5 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 Flying | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Flying | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Flying | det |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Flying | compound |
| 10 | Flying | Fly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drops | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drops | cc |
| 16 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 honey | case |
| 18 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mouth | obl |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 mouth | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drops | obj |
| 23 | From | from | ADP | _ | 25 hive | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hive | det |
| 25 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drops | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 bee | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bee | det |
| 28 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bee | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 honey | punct |
| 30 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hive | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | three white doves | the sea; there | out the South Flying | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drop | present | the hive of the honey bee | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from hive=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | is | past | doves's mouth | of honey | 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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