Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 16

And the three most famous heroes that ever were found will lose their heads on her account."

Who acts: three famous heroes, race · What happens: find, lose, account · To what, where: three famous heroes, heads, account

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 (three famous heroes, race), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 lose	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heroes	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 heroes	nummod
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 famous	advmod
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heroes	amod
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lose	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 found	nsubj:pass
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 found	advmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux:pass
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 heroes	acl:relcl
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lose	aux
12	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod:poss
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lose	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 account	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 account	nmod:poss
17	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lose	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lose	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	find	past · passive		the three famous heroes		ever	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	lose	future	the three famous heroes	heroes's heads	race's account		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality
3	account		race				nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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