Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 143

He seized one of the dice on the table before him and fired it through the bicker-hole, and knocked the eye out of Gelban Grednach the Cheerful and Charming, right through the back of his head.

Who acts: son · What happens: seize, fire, knock · To what, where: one, table, bicker hole, eye, Gelban

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 (son), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seized	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dice	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dice	det
6	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seized	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fired	cc
13	fired	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seized	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fired	obj
15	through	through	ADP	_	19 hole	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hole	det
17	bicker	bicker	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hole	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 bicker	punct
19	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fired	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knocked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knocked	cc
22	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seized	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 eye	det
24	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knocked	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	27 Gelban	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Gelban	case
27	Gelban	Gelban	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 knocked	obl
28	Grednach	Grednach	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Gelban	flat
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Cheerful	det
30	Cheerful	Cheerful	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Gelban	flat
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Charming	cc
32	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Gelban	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 back	punct
34	right	right	ADV	_	37 back	advmod
35	through	through	ADP	_	37 back	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 back	det
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knocked	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 head	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 head	nmod:poss
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 back	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	son	one of the dice	the table	before hole		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	fire	past	son not said here	table	the bicker hole			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme through hole=Destination
3	knock	past	son not said here	the eye	Gelban and Charming		through the back of son's head	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme out gelban=Destination

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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