Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 199

The order that he gave was that they should dig a pit and put the three brothers in it side by side.

Who acts: Connachar, order · What happens: give, be, put · To what, where: order, three brothers

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 (Connachar, order), 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 order	det
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dig	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 gave	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 order	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dig	cop
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 dig	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dig	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dig	aux
10	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pit	det
12	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dig	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dig	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brothers	det
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 brothers	nummod
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obl
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	flat
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 side	case
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dig	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Connachar	the order not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	is	should · past	the order			dig property	tree rules
3	put	infinitive	the order not said here	the three brothers	order	by side	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brother=Theme in it=Destination

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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