Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 175

They stretched their sides to the stream, And sea and land were to them the same, The rough grey ocean was the same As meadow-land green and plain.

Who acts: Deirdre, sea, rough grey ocean · What happens: stretch, be · To what, where: sides

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 (Deirdre, sea, rough grey ocean), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stretched	nsubj
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sides	nmod:poss
4	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stretched	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stretched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 same	punct
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 same	cc
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 them	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 land	cc
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sea	conj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 them	cop
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 same	nsubj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 same	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stretched	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 same	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ocean	det
20	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ocean	amod
21	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ocean	amod
22	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 same	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 same	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 same	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 same	parataxis
26	As	as	ADP	_	29 land	case
27	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 land	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 meadow	punct
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 same	obl
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 land	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 plain	cc
32	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 green	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	Deirdre	Deirdre's sides	to the stream result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent side=Patient to stream=Result
2	is	past	sea and land		to Deirdre	tree rules
3	is	past	the rough grey ocean		as meadow land; same property	tree rules

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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