Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 204
She jumped into the grave and lay down by Naois, and she was dead by his side.
Who acts: body · What happens: jump, lay down, be · To what, where: grave
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 (body), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 grave | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grave | det |
| 5 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lay | cc |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 jumped | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 lay | compound:prt |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Naois | case |
| 10 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dead | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dead | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dead | cop |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 side | nmod:poss |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dead | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | body | into the grave result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into grave=Result | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | body not said here | by Naois | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by naois=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | body | by man's side; dead property | tree rules |
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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