Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 120
It is nought but the fear of woman's heart, And a dream of the night, Deirdre.
Who acts: mouth · What happens: be, fear, dream · To what, where: nought, heart, night
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 (mouth), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nought | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nought | cop |
| 3 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 fear | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fear | det |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nought | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fear | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dream | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dream | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dream | det |
| 14 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nought | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dream | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Deirdre | punct |
| 19 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nought | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | mouth | nought | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fear | woman's heart | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | dream | the night | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=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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