Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 68
The nurse replied, "No less than a king's command and a king's army could put me out of my bothy to-night.
Who acts: nurse, king · What happens: reply, put, command · To what, where: nurse, me, bothy · 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 (nurse, king), 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 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 nurse | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 less | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 less | punct |
| 6 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 less | discourse |
| 7 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 nurse | amod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 command | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 command | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 less | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 army | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 army | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 command | conj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | aux |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 bothy | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bothy | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bothy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bothy | bothy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 to | punct |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the nurse not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put in a quote | could | the nurse | me | my bothy | night | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme out bothy=Destination | ||
| 3 | command in a quote | a king | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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