Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 141
Now she that he gazed upon used to go into a crimson blaze of blushes when any one looked at her.
Who acts: Gelban, one, blushes · What happens: gaze, use, go, look, blaze · To what, where: crimson blaze
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 (Gelban, one, blushes), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gazed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gazed | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 gazed | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gazed | nsubj |
| 5 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 7 used | mark |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gazed | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 used | xcomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 blaze | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blaze | det |
| 12 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blaze | amod |
| 13 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 blushes | case |
| 15 | blushes | blush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 blaze | nmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 looked | advmod |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | Gelban | now | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | Gelban not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Gelban not said here | a crimson blaze of blushes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into blaze=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | past | any one | at Gelban | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | blaze | blushes | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent |
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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