Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 132
The coracle was put to sea, The sail was hoisted to it; And the second morrow they arrived On the white shores of Erin.
Who acts: second morrow · What happens: put, hoist, arrive · To what, where: coracle, sail, white shores
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 (second morrow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coracle | det |
| 2 | coracle | coracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hoisted | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sail | det |
| 9 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hoisted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hoisted | aux:pass |
| 11 | hoisted | hoist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 put | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hoisted | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 arrived | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 arrived | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morrow | det |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 morrow | amod |
| 18 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrived | nsubj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 arrived | nsubj |
| 20 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 21 | On | on | ADP | _ | 24 shores | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shores | det |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shores | amod |
| 24 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arrived | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Erin | case |
| 26 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 shores | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the coracle | to sea | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | hoist | past · passive | the sail | coracle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | the second morrow | the white shores of Erin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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