Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 85
What happened but that love for Naois struck the heart of Deirdre, so that she could not but follow after him.
Who acts: love · What happens: happen, strike, follow · To what, where: heart
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 (love), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 struck | cc |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 love | det |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Naois | case |
| 7 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 love | nmod |
| 8 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heart | det |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Deirdre | case |
| 12 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 heart | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 follow | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 follow | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 follow | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 could | advmod |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 follow | cc |
| 20 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 happened | conj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 follow | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | strike | past | that love for Naois | the heart of Deirdre | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | follow | could | after Uisnech | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=Theme |
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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