Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 162
And the noble, manly, handsome youths with beauteous, brown locks returned inside. "
What happens: return · To what, where: beauteous brown locks
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: 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 | _ | 8 youths | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youths | det |
| 3 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 youths | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 noble | punct |
| 5 | manly | manly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 youths | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 manly | punct |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 youths | amod |
| 8 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 locks | case |
| 10 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 locks | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beauteous | punct |
| 12 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 locks | amod |
| 13 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 youths | nmod |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 locks | acl |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 14 returned | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 youths | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 youths | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | beauteous brown locks not said here | inside property | 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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