Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 80
Deirdre and her women companions were one day out on the hillock behind the house enjoying the scene, and drinking in the sun's heat.
Who acts: Deirdre, hillock, sun · What happens: be, enjoy, heat · To what, where: one day, hillock, scene
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, hillock, sun), 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 | 8 day | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 companions | cc |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 women | nmod:poss |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 companions | compound |
| 5 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Deirdre | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 day | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 day | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hillock | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hillock | det |
| 12 | hillock | hillock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | nmod |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hillock | nmod |
| 16 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 hillock | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 scene | det |
| 18 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enjoying | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drinking | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drinking | cc |
| 21 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 heat | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 sun | case |
| 26 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drinking | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Deirdre and women companions | one day and drinking in the sun's heat | the hillock behind the house | out property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | enjoy | gerund | the hillock behind the house not said here | the scene | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scene=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | heat | the sun | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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