Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 95

With the confusion that she was in, Deirdre went into a crimson blaze of fire, and her colour came and went as rapidly as the movement of the aspen by the stream side.

Who acts: sleep, Deirdre, colour, fire · What happens: be, go, come, blaze, move · To what, where: confusion, crimson blaze, aspen

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 (sleep, Deirdre, colour, fire), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 confusion	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 confusion	det
3	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 in	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 in	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 in	cop
7	in	in	ADV	_	3 confusion	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 confusion	punct
9	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 blaze	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 blaze	det
13	crimson	crimson	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 blaze	amod
14	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 fire	case
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blaze	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 colour	nmod:poss
20	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 rapidly	advmod
25	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 movement	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 movement	det
28	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 aspen	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 aspen	det
31	aspen	aspen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 movement	nmod
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 side	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 side	det
34	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 side	compound
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sleep	the confusion not said here		in property	tree rules
2	go	past	Deirdre		a crimson blaze of fire	with the confusion	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into blaze=Initial_Location
3	come	past	sleep's colour				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	sleep's colour not said here			as the movement of the aspen; by the stream side; rapidly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by side=Location
5	blaze		fire				nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent
6	move			the aspen			nom movement «act 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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