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Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 41

She placed a seat in the place for sitting, food in the place for eating, and drink in the place for drinking for the man who came to the house. "

Who acts: bird, place, man · What happens: place, eat, drink, come · To what, where: seat, place, house

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 (bird, place, man), 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

nsubjdetobjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctconjcasedetnmodmarkaclpunctccoblcasedetnmodmarkaclcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctpunctrootShePRONplacedVERBaDETseatNOUNinADPtheDETplaceNOUNforADPsittingNOUN,PUNCTfoodNOUNinADPtheDETplaceNOUNforSCONJeatingVERB,PUNCTandCCONJdrinkNOUNinADPtheDETplaceNOUNforSCONJdrinkingVERBforADPtheDETmanNOUNwhoPRONcameVERBtoADPtheDEThouseNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 placednsubj
2placedplaceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 seatdet
4seatseatNOUNNumber=Sing2 placedobj
5ininADP_7 placecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 placedet
7placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing2 placedobl
8forforADP_9 sittingcase
9sittingsittingNOUNNumber=Sing7 placenmod
10,,PUNCT_11 foodpunct
11foodfoodNOUNNumber=Sing7 placeconj
12ininADP_14 placecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 placedet
14placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing11 foodnmod
15forforSCONJ_16 eatingmark
16eatingeatVERBVerbForm=Ger14 placeacl
17,,PUNCT_19 drinkpunct
18andandCCONJ_19 drinkcc
19drinkdrinkNOUNNumber=Sing2 placedobl
20ininADP_22 placecase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 placedet
22placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing19 drinknmod
23forforSCONJ_24 drinkingmark
24drinkingdrinkVERBVerbForm=Ger22 placeacl
25forforADP_27 mancase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 mandet
27manmanNOUNNumber=Sing24 drinkingobl
28whowhoPRONPronType=Rel29 camensubj
29camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 manacl:relcl
30totoADP_32 housecase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 housedet
32househouseNOUNNumber=Sing29 cameobl
33..PUNCT_2 placedpunct
34""PUNCT_2 placedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1placepastbirda seatthe place for sitting and food in the placedrink in the place oblvn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seat=Theme in place=Destination
2eatgerundthe place not said herevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3drinkgerundthe place not said herefor the manvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4comepastthe manthe housevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

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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