Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 198
The people then gathered round the heroes' bodies and asked Connachar what was to be done with the bodies.
Who acts: people · What happens: gather, ask, do · To what, where: Connachar · 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 (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gathered | advmod |
| 4 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 bodies | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heroes | det |
| 7 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 heroes | case |
| 9 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gathered | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathered | conj |
| 12 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 done | obj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux:pass |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | aux:pass |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 bodies | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bodies | det |
| 20 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 done | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the people | then | round the heroes's bodies | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the people not said here | Connachar | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent connachar=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | past · passive | with the bodies | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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