Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 82
Deirdre was looking at the men that were coming, and wondering at them.
Who acts: Deirdre, that · What happens: look, come, wonder
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, 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 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | aux |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 men | det |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 coming | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 coming | aux |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 looking | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wondering | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wondering | cc |
| 12 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 looking | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wondering | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | Deirdre | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | that | at the men | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at man=Location | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Deirdre not said here | at Deirdre | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: 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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