Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 118

I saw three grey hawks out of the south Come flying over the sea, And the red red drops they bare in their mouth They were dearer than life to me.

Who acts: I, red red drops, drops · What happens: see, come, fly, bare, be · To what, where: three grey hawks, sea, mouth, me

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 (I, red red drops, drops), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hawks	nummod
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hawks	amod
5	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	10 Come	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 south	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 south	det
9	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Come	obl
10	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	advcl
11	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 Come	xcomp
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bare	punct
16	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 bare	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 drops	det
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 drops	amod
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 drops	amod
20	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bare	nsubj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bare	nsubj
22	bare	bare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mouth	nmod:poss
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bare	obl
26	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dearer	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dearer	cop
28	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 mouth	acl:relcl
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 life	case
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dearer	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 dearer	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	three grey hawks				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hawk=Stimulus
2	come	infinitive	I not said here				of the south	tree rules
3	fly	gerund	I not said here			the sea		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location
4	bare	present	the red red drops				in drops's mouth	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mouth=Topic
5	is	past	drops = drop	drops's mouth not said here	me		than life; dear 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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