Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 206
It was done as the king bade, and the pit closed.
Who acts: pit · What happens: do, close · To what, where: 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 (pit), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 bade | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bade | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | compound |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 done | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 closed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 closed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pit | det |
| 11 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 closed | nsubj |
| 12 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 done | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | side | as the king bade | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | close | participle | the pit | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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