Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 173

"I will try another plan on them," said the druid; and he placed before them a grey sea instead of a green plain.

Who acts: druid · What happens: try, say, place · To what, where: plan, grey sea · 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 (druid), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 plan	det
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 plan	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 druid	det
13	druid	druid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 placed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 placed	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 placed	nsubj
17	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 placed	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sea	det
21	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sea	amod
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 placed	obj
23	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	27 plain	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	23 instead	fixed
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 plain	det
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 plain	amod
27	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 placed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	future	the druid = druid	another plan		on Deirdre	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the druid				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	place	past	druid	a grey sea	before Deirdre	instead a green plain	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sea=Theme before they=Destination

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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