Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 58
"Who is this beauty and where is she to be seen, when she was not seen before till you saw her, if you did see her?"
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not see, see · To what, where: beauty, Erin
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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 beauty | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 beauty | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beauty | cop |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 beauty | det |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seen | cc |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 seen | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | cop |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 seen | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 beauty | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 seen | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 seen | advmod |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 beauty | conj |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 saw | mark |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 saw | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seen | parataxis |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 see | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this beauty | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · passive | Erin | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | past · passive | Erin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | you | Erin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · do-support | you | Erin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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