Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 148
"Well, I have seen Deirdre, and I saw her also truly, and while I was looking at her through the bicker-hole on the door, Naois, son of Uisnech, knocked out my eye with one of the dice in his hand.
Who acts: Alba, Naois · What happens: see, look, knock out · To what, where: Deirdre, Gelban, bicker hole, eye
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 (Alba, Naois), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:743): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 seen | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 seen | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 truly | advmod |
| 14 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 11 saw | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 knocked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 knocked | cc |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 looking | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 looking | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 looking | aux |
| 20 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 knocked | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looking | obl |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 hole | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hole | det |
| 25 | bicker | bicker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hole | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 bicker | punct |
| 27 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looking | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 door | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 door | det |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hole | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looking | punct |
| 32 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 knocked | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 son | punct |
| 34 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Naois | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Uisnech | case |
| 36 | Uisnech | Uisnech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 son | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 son | punct |
| 38 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 knocked | compound:prt |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 eye | nmod:poss |
| 41 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 knocked | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 one | case |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 knocked | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 dice | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 dice | det |
| 46 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 one | nmod |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 hand | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 hand | nmod:poss |
| 49 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 one | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Alba | Deirdre | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deirdre=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | Alba | Gelban | truly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | look in a quote | past · progressive | Alba | the bicker hole on the door | at Gelban | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||
| 4 | knock out in a quote | past | Naois | my eye | with one of the dice in Uisnech's hand | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with one=Instrument |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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