Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 23
Deirdre grew like the white sapling, straight and trim as the rash on the moss.
Who acts: Deirdre · What happens: grow
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 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 sapling | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sapling | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sapling | amod |
| 6 | sapling | sapling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 straight | punct |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sapling | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 trim | cc |
| 10 | trim | trim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 straight | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 rash | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rash | det |
| 13 | rash | rash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trim | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 moss | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moss | det |
| 16 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rash | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Deirdre | like the white sapling | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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