Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 26

There was not a blade of grass growing from root, nor a bird singing in the wood, nor a star shining from heaven but Deirdre had a name for it.

Who acts: blade, grass, bird, star, Deirdre · What happens: not be, grow, sing, shine, have · To what, where: wood, heaven, name

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 (blade, grass, bird, star), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 blade	det
5	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grass	case
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blade	nmod
8	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 grass	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 root	case
10	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 growing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bird	punct
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 bird	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bird	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
15	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 bird	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 singing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 star	punct
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 star	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 star	det
22	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
23	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 star	acl
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 heaven	case
25	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shining	obl
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
27	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shining	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 name	det
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 name	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not be	past	a blade of grass		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	gerund	grass not said here			from root	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from root=Patient
3	sing speech: express	gerund	a bird not said here		the wood		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
4	shine	gerund	a star not said here		heaven		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	Deirdre	a name		for star	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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