Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 79
Deirdre was clever in maidenly duties and wifely understanding, and Connachar thought he never saw with bodily eye a creature that pleased him more.
Who acts: Deirdre, Connachar · What happens: be, think, not see · To what, where: maidenly duties, creature · 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 (Deirdre, Connachar), 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 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 clever | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clever | cop |
| 3 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 duties | case |
| 5 | maidenly | maidenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 duties | amod |
| 6 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clever | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 understanding | cc |
| 8 | wifely | wifely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 understanding | amod |
| 9 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 duties | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 12 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clever | parataxis |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 saw | advmod |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 eye | case |
| 18 | bodily | bodily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eye | amod |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 creature | det |
| 21 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 pleased | nsubj |
| 23 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 creature | amod |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pleased | nsubj |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 saw | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Deirdre | maidenly duties and wifely understanding | clever property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Connachar | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not see | past | Connachar | a creature | with bodily eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=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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