Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 17

After a time a daughter was born to Malcolm, he did not allow a living being to come to his house, only himself and the nurse.

Who acts: time, Malcolm, living · What happens: bear, not allow, come · To what, where: daughter, Malcolm, living, house

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 (time, Malcolm, living), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 allow	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 daughter	det
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 born	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 born	aux:pass
7	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 time	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Malcolm	case
9	Malcolm	Malcolm	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 born	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 allow	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 allow	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 allow	advmod
14	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 living	det
16	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 allow	obj
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 living	acl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 being	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 house	nmod:poss
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 himself	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 himself	advmod
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 house	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 nurse	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 nurse	det
28	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 himself	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	bear	past · passive	a time not said here	a daughter	Malcolm			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not allow	past · do-support	Malcolm	a living			time	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Beneficiary
3	come	to-infinitive	a living not said here			Malcolm's house Malcolm		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

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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