Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 18

He asked this woman, "Will you yourself bring up the child to keep her in hiding far away where eye will not see a sight of her nor ear hear a word about her?"

Who acts: Malcolm, woman, eye · What happens: ask, bring up, keep, hide, not see, hear · To what, where: woman, child, sight, word, ear · 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 (Malcolm, woman, eye), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct
7	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bring	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 bring	nsubj
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 you	nmod
10	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 bring	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bring	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	obj
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 hiding	mark
18	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 see	advcl
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 away	advmod
20	away	away	ADV	_	18 hiding	advmod
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 see	advmod
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 see	advmod
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 keep	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sight	det
27	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 ear	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ear	nmod:poss
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 ear	cc
31	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sight	nmod
32	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 word	det
34	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hear	obj
35	about	about	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 word	nmod
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Malcolm		this woman		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bring up in a quote	future	this woman = woman	the child			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	this woman = woman not said here	child			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	hide in a quote	gerund	eye not said here			away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not see in a quote	future	eye	a sight of eye's ear			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
6	hear in a quote	infinitive	eye not said here	a word		about eye	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
7	sight in a quote			eye's ear			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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