Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 170

And the magician placed a wood before them through which no man could go, but the sons of Uisnech marched through the wood without halt or hesitation, and Deirdre held on to Naois's hand.

Who acts: magician, man, sons, Deirdre · What happens: place, go, march, hold on · To what, where: wood

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 (magician, man, sons, Deirdre), 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	_	4 placed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	nsubj
4	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obj
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 placed	obl
9	through	through	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 go	obl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 placed	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 marched	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 marched	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sons	det
18	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 marched	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Uisnech	case
20	Uisnech	Uisnech	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sons	nmod
21	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	conj
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 wood	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wood	det
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 marched	obl
25	without	without	ADP	_	26 halt	case
26	halt	halt	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 marched	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 hesitation	cc
28	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 halt	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 held	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 held	cc
31	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 held	nsubj
32	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	32 held	compound:prt
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 hand	case
35	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 hand	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Naois	case
37	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 held	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	the magician	a wood		before King		tree rules
2	go	could	no man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location
3	march	past	the sons of Uisnech		the wood		without halt or hesitation	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
4	hold on	past	Deirdre				to Naois's hand	vn exist-47.1 «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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