Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 25
The woman that had charge of her, gave Deirdre every information and skill of which she herself had knowledge and skill.
Who acts: woman · What happens: have, give, charge · To what, where: charge, information, Deirdre, knowledge, woman
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 (woman), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 woman | acl:relcl |
| 5 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 charge | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 woman | punct |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 information | det |
| 12 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 skill | cc |
| 14 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 information | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 had | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 she | conj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 skill | acl |
| 20 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 skill | cc |
| 22 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knowledge | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the woman | charge of woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the woman | every information and skill | Deirdre | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent deirdre=Recipient information=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | woman | knowledge and skill | of skill | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient | |||
| 4 | charge | woman | nom charge «act transitive»: of=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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