Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 145
"You were cheerful, charming, going away, but you are cheerless, charmless, returning.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, charm, go away, return
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 (You), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cheerful | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cheerful | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cheerful | cop |
| 4 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 charming | punct |
| 6 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cheerful | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 charming | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cheerless | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 cheerless | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 cheerless | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cheerless | cop |
| 14 | cheerless | cheerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cheerful | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 charmless | punct |
| 16 | charmless | charmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cheerless | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 returning | punct |
| 18 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 cheerless | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cheerful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | You | cheerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | charm in a quote | gerund | You not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go away in a quote | gerund | You not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | cheerless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | return in a quote | gerund | you not said here | 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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