Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 201
When the bodies of the brothers were put in the grave, Deirdre said:--
Who acts: Deirdre · What happens: put, say · To what, where: bodies, grave · 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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bodies | det |
| 3 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 brothers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bodies | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux:pass |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 grave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grave | det |
| 11 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 13 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the bodies of the brothers | the grave | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | 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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