Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 208
The king ordered the shoots to be cut down, and this was done twice, until, at the third time, the wife whom the king had married caused him to stop this work of evil and his vengeance on the remains of the dead.
Who acts: king, shoots, wife, shoot, evil · What happens: order, cut down, do, marry, cause, stop · To what, where: shoots, this, king, shoot, work
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, shoots, wife, shoot), 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 shoots | det |
| 5 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cut | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cut | aux:pass |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 done | cc |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 done | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux:pass |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cut | conj |
| 15 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 done | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 caused | punct |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 caused | mark |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 until | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 caused | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 time | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wife | det |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 caused | nsubj |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 married | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 married | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 married | aux |
| 30 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 wife | acl:relcl |
| 31 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | parataxis |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 caused | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 stop | mark |
| 34 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 caused | xcomp |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 work | det |
| 36 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stop | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 evil | case |
| 38 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 work | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 vengeance | cc |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 vengeance | nmod:poss |
| 41 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 work | conj |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 remains | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 remains | det |
| 44 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 41 vengeance | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 dead | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 dead | det |
| 47 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 remains | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the king | the shoots | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent shoot=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cut down not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the shoots not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | do | past · passive | this | twice property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | marry | past · perfect · passive | the king | the wife obl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | cause | past | the wife | shoot | time | tree rules | |||
| 6 | stop | to-infinitive | shoot not said here | this work of evil and shoot's vengeance on the remains of the dead | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | work | evil | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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