Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 34
It is nothing at all, Deirdre--merely the birds of the air astray and seeking each other.
Who acts: cry · What happens: be, seek · To what, where: nothing, all, each
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nothing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nothing | cop |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Deirdre | punct |
| 7 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | appos |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 birds | punct |
| 9 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 11 birds | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 birds | det |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 birds | nmod |
| 15 | astray | astray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 birds | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seeking | cc |
| 17 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 astray | conj |
| 18 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 17 seeking | obj |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 each | fixed |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | cry | nothing | all | the birds of the air nmod | tree rules | ||
| 2 | seek | gerund | cry not said here | each | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=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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