Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 33

Deirdre heard the voice and said to her foster-mother: "O foster-mother, what cry is that?" "

Who acts: Deirdre, cry · What happens: hear, say, be · To what, where: voice, foster mother, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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, cry), 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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 voice	det
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 mother	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
9	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mother	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 foster	punct
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
14	O	o	INTJ	_	17 mother	discourse
15	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mother	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 foster	punct
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 that	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 that	obj
20	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 that	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 that	cop
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 mother	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hear	past	Deirdre	the voice		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Deirdre not said here		dream's foster mother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	cry	that		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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