Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 84
The three brothers went past without taking any notice of them, without even glancing at the young girls on the hillock.
Who acts: three brothers · What happens: go past, take, glance, notice · To what, where: notice, brothers
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 (three brothers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | past | past | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 taking | mark |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 notice | det |
| 9 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 notice | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glancing | punct |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 glancing | mark |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 glancing | advmod |
| 15 | glancing | glance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 taking | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 girls | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girls | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 girls | amod |
| 19 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 glancing | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 hillock | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hillock | det |
| 22 | hillock | hillock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 girls | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go past | past | the three brothers | past property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the three brothers not said here | any notice of brothers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glance | gerund | the three brothers not said here | at the young girls on the hillock | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at girl=Theme | ||||
| 4 | notice | brothers = brother | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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