Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 67
Connachar with his band of kinsfolk went down to the green knoll where Deirdre dwelt and he knocked at the door of the bothy.
Who acts: Connachar, Deirdre · What happens: go down, dwell, knock
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 (Connachar, 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 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 band | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 band | nmod:poss |
| 4 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Connachar | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 kinsfolk | case |
| 6 | kinsfolk | kinsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 band | nmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 knoll | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knoll | det |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knoll | amod |
| 12 | knoll | knoll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 dwelt | advmod |
| 14 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dwelt | nsubj |
| 15 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knoll | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knocked | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knocked | nsubj |
| 18 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knocked | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bothy | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bothy | det |
| 24 | bothy | bothy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 door | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Connachar with Connachar's band of kinsfolk | to the green knoll; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | Deirdre | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | knock | past | Connachar | at the door of the bothy | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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