Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 48
"What like are these men when seen, if we were to see them?" said Deirdre.
Who acts: we, Deirdre · What happens: be, see, say · To what, where: men, Deirdre · 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 (we, Deirdre), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 said | obj |
| 3 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 6 men | discourse |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 men | cop |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 men | det |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | nsubj |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 seen | mark |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 men | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this men | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | we | Deirdre | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | Deirdre | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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