Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 166
Naois and Deirdre, Allan and Arden started to return to Alba.
Who acts: Naois · What happens: start, return · To what, where: Alba
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 (Naois), 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 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 started | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Deirdre | cc |
| 3 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Naois | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Allan | punct |
| 5 | Allan | Allan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Naois | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Arden | cc |
| 7 | Arden | Arden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Naois | conj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 return | mark |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 started | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Alba | case |
| 12 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Naois and Deirdre and Allan and Arden | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | Naois and Deirdre and Allan and Arden not said here | Alba | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to alba=Result |
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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