Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 53
The hunter went away, and went straight to the palace of King Connachar.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: go away, go · To what, where: palace
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 (hunter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 palace | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Connachar | case |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Connachar | compound |
| 14 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the hunter | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the hunter not said here | the palace of King Connachar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=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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