Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 191

Now dry up the flood, and let me see if I can behold Deirdre," said Connachar.

Who acts: you, me, I, Deirdre · What happens: dry up, let, see, behold, say · To what, where: flood, me · 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 (you, me, I, Deirdre), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 dry	advmod
2	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 dry	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flood	det
5	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dry	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 dry	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 behold	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 behold	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 behold	aux
14	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	ccomp
15	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Deirdre	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Deirdre	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 behold	ccomp
19	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	dry up	imperative	you not said here	the flood	now	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient flood=Result
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	me		tree rules
3	see	infinitive	me not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	behold a condition, not said to happen	can	I			tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Deirdre			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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