Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 205
The king ordered the body to be raised from out the grave and to be buried on the other side of the loch.
Who acts: king · What happens: order, raise, bury · To what, where: body, grave, other side
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 (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 raised | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 raised | aux:pass |
| 8 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | advcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 grave | case |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 grave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grave | det |
| 12 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 raised | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 buried | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 buried | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 buried | aux:pass |
| 16 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 raised | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buried | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 loch | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 loch | det |
| 23 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 side | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the king | the body | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | the grave | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: from grave=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bury | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | the other side of the loch | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on side=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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