Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 181

Arden came and sat, on Naois's shoulder.

Who acts: Arden · What happens: come, sit · To what, where: shoulder

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	Arden	Arden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shoulder	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 shoulder	case
7	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shoulder	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Naois	case
9	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Arden						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	Arden not said here			Naois's shoulder			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location

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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