Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 164

And the youths all fresh and tall and lithe and beautiful, went home to their father to tell that the sons of Uisnech were safe.

Who acts: youths, sons · What happens: go, tell, be · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youths, sons), 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	_	13 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youths	det
3	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 fresh	advmod
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 youths	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tall	cc
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fresh	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lithe	cc
9	lithe	lithe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fresh	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beautiful	cc
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fresh	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 youths	punct
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 safe	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sons	det
22	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 safe	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Uisnech	case
24	Uisnech	Uisnech	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sons	nmod
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 safe	cop
26	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tell	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youths	to locks's father; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the youths not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the sons of Uisnech	safe property	tree rules

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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