Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 87
Allen and Arden had heard of the woman that Connachar, King of Ulster, had with him, and they thought that, if Naois, their brother, saw her, he would have her himself, more especially as she was not married to the King.
Who acts: Connachar, Allen, Naois · What happens: hear, have, think, see, not marry · To what, where: Allen, that, love
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 (Connachar, Allen, Naois), 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 | Allen | Allen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Arden | cc |
| 3 | Arden | Arden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Allen | conj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 10 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 King | punct |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Connachar | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Ulster | case |
| 14 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Connachar | punct |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thought | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 thought | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saw | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 saw | mark |
| 26 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brother | punct |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 brother | nmod:poss |
| 29 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Naois | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Naois | punct |
| 31 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | parataxis |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 saw | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 have | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 saw | conj |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 have | obj |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 have | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 more | punct |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 46 married | advmod |
| 41 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 46 married | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 married | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 married | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 married | aux:pass |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 married | advmod |
| 46 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 have | advcl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 King | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 King | det |
| 49 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 married | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect · passive | Allen and Arden | of the woman | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Connachar | with Arden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Allen | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen | past | Naois | love | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | have | would | Connachar | love | Connachar obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 6 | not marry | past · passive | love | to the King; especially property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to king=Co-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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