Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 24

She was the creature of fairest form, of loveliest aspect, and of gentlest nature that existed between earth and heaven in all Ireland--whatever colour of hue she had before, there was nobody that looked into her face but she would blush fiery red over it.

Who acts: company, gentlest nature, nobody · What happens: be, exist, have, look, blush · To what, where: creature, Ireland, colour, red

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 (company, gentlest nature, nobody), 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	4 creature	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 creature	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creature	det
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 form	case
6	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 form	amod
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creature	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 aspect	punct
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 aspect	case
10	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 aspect	amod
11	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creature	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nature	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 nature	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 gentlest	case
15	gentlest	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 nature	amod
16	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creature	parataxis
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 existed	nsubj
18	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 nature	acl:relcl
19	between	between	ADP	_	20 earth	case
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 existed	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heaven	cc
22	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 earth	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 Ireland	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 Ireland	det
25	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 existed	obl
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 colour	punct
27	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	28 colour	det
28	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creature	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 hue	case
30	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 colour	nmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 colour	acl:relcl
33	before	before	ADV	_	32 had	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 was	punct
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 was	expl
36	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 creature	parataxis
37	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 was	nsubj
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 looked	nsubj
39	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 nobody	acl:relcl
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 face	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 face	nmod:poss
42	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 looked	obl
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 blush	cc
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 blush	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 blush	aux
46	blush	blush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 was	conj
47	fiery	fiery	ADV	_	48 red	advmod
48	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 blush	obj
49	over	over	ADP	_	50 it	case
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 red	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	company	the creature and loveliest aspect and whatever colour of hue		of fairest form	tree rules
2	exist	past	gentlest nature		all Ireland	between earth and heaven	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between earth=Location
3	have	past	company	whatever colour of hue not said here		before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
4	be	past	nobody		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	past				into company's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme
6	blush	would	company	red			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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