Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 178
And the druid froze the grey ridged sea into hard rocky knobs, the sharpness of sword being on the one edge and the poison power of adders on the other.
Who acts: druid, grey, sharpness · What happens: freeze, ridge, be · To what, where: sea, one edge
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, grey, sharpness), 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 froze | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 druid | det |
| 3 | druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 froze | nsubj |
| 4 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grey | det |
| 6 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ridged | nsubj |
| 7 | ridged | ridge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 froze | ccomp |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ridged | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 knobs | case |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knobs | amod |
| 11 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knobs | amod |
| 12 | knobs | knob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 edge | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sharpness | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sharpness | det |
| 15 | sharpness | sharpness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 edge | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sword | case |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sharpness | nmod |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 edge | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 edge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 edge | det |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 edge | nummod |
| 22 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ridged | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 power | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 power | det |
| 25 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 power | compound |
| 26 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 edge | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 adders | case |
| 28 | adders | adder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 power | nmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 other | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 other | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 adders | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 froze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past | the druid | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ridge | past | the grey | sea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | the sharpness of sword | the one edge and the poison power of adders on the other | into hard rocky knobs | 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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