Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 71
When the poor woman heard who was at the door, she rose with haste and let in the king and all that could get in of his retinue.
Who acts: poor woman, woman, that · What happens: hear, be, rise, let, get · To what, where: door, retinue · 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 (poor woman, woman, that), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rose | advcl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 door | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 door | cop |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 haste | case |
| 15 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rose | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 get | det:predet |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 get | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rose | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 29 retinue | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 in | fixed |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 retinue | nmod:poss |
| 29 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the poor woman | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the door | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rise | past | woman | with haste | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | woman not said here | in the king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | get | could | that | Connachar's retinue | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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