Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 15
The trees growing from the lovers' graves occurs in the English ballad of _Lord Lovel_ and has been studied in _Melusine_.
Who acts: trees · What happens: grow, occur, study · To what, where: English ballad, Melusine
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees), 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 | 2 trees | det |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 trees | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 graves | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lovers | det |
| 6 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 graves | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 lovers | case |
| 8 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 growing | obl |
| 9 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ballad | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ballad | det |
| 12 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ballad | amod |
| 13 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 occurs | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Lord | case |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 of | punct |
| 16 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ballad | nmod |
| 17 | Lovel | Lovel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lord | flat |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 occurs | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 studied | cc |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 studied | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 studied | aux:pass |
| 22 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 occurs | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Melusine | case |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 in | punct |
| 25 | Melusine | Melusine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 studied | obl |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 studied | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | the trees not said here | from the lovers's graves | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from grave=Patient | ||||
| 2 | occur | present | the trees | the English ballad of Lord | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ballad=Location | ||||
| 3 | study | present · perfect · passive | the trees not said here | Melusine | vn learn-14-1 «NP V» |
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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