Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 179
Then Arden cried that he was getting tired, and nearly giving over. "
Who acts: Arden · What happens: cry, get, give over
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 (Arden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | Arden | Arden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 getting | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 getting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 getting | aux |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 cried | advcl |
| 8 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 getting | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 giving | cc |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 giving | advmod |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 cried | advcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 giving | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Arden | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past · progressive | Arden | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | give over | gerund | Arden not said here | nearly property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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