Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 174
The three heroes stripped and tied their clothes behind their heads, and Naois placed Deirdre on the top of his shoulder.
Who acts: three heroes, Naois · What happens: strip, tie, place · To what, where: clothes, heads, Deirdre, top
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 (three heroes, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heroes | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 heroes | nummod |
| 3 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stripped | nsubj |
| 4 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tied | cc |
| 6 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stripped | conj |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 tied | obj |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 heads | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heads | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 placed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 placed | cc |
| 14 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | nsubj |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stripped | conj |
| 16 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 top | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 top | det |
| 19 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 shoulder | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 top | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strip | past | the three heroes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tie | past | the three heroes not said here | heroes's clothes | heroes's heads | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | |||
| 3 | place | past | Naois | Deirdre | the top of druid's shoulder | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent deirdre=Theme on top=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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