Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 136

But he that was up in the palace felt it long that he was not getting word as to how matters were going on for those down in the house of the strangers. "

Who acts: house, matters · What happens: be, not get, go on · To what, where: palace, word, house

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 (house, matters), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 was	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 felt	cop
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 was	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	obl
9	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 felt	obj
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 felt	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 getting	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 getting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 getting	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 getting	advmod
16	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 felt	advcl
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 getting	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 going	mark
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 as	fixed
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 going	advmod
21	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 going	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 getting	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	23 going	compound:prt
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 those	case
26	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 going	obl
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 those	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 strangers	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 strangers	det
33	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 house	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 felt	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			the palace	feel, long property	tree rules
2	not get	past · progressive	house	word			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	go on	past · progressive	matters		the house of the strangers	for those	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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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