Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 40
And Deirdre arose and drew the bolt from the leaf of the door, and she let in the hunter.
Who acts: Deirdre, bird · What happens: arise, draw, let · To what, where: bolt, leaf, hunter
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, bird), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 arose | cc |
| 2 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 drew | cc |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bolt | det |
| 7 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 leaf | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 leaf | det |
| 10 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaf | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | nsubj |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hunter | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hunter | det |
| 20 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Deirdre | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | Deirdre not said here | the bolt | the leaf of the door | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme from leaf=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | let | past | bird | the hunter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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