Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 194
Fair one, blue-eyed, beloved of thy wife; lovely to me at the trysting-place came thy clear voice through the woods of Ireland.
Who acts: lovely · What happens: belov, come · To what, where: woods
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 (lovely), 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 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 one | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eyed | punct |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eyed | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 blue | punct |
| 6 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beloved | punct |
| 8 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 eyed | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beloved | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 lovely | punct |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 came | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lovely | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 18 | trysting | trysting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 trysting | punct |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lovely | obl |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eyed | parataxis |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 voice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 voice | amod |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 woods | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woods | det |
| 27 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 came | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Ireland | case |
| 29 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 woods | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belov | participle | of thy wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | lovely | the woods of Ireland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_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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