Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 78

Connachar got for her a woman-teacher and merry modest maidens fair that would lie down and rise with her, that would play and speak with her.

Who acts: Connachar, that · What happens: get, lie down, rise, play, speak · To what, where: woman teacher · 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 (Connachar, 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	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teacher	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fair	cc
10	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 maidens	amod
11	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 maidens	amod
12	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fair	nsubj
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	conj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lie	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 lie	aux
16	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fair	parataxis
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 lie	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rise	cc
19	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lie	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rise	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 play	punct
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 play	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 play	aux
25	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 got	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 speak	cc
27	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 play	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 speak	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	Connachar	a woman teacher	for promise	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme for she=Beneficiary
2	lie down	would	that		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rise	infinitive	that not said here		with promise	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play	would	that			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other	infinitive	that not said here		with promise	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-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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