More English Fairy Tales, LXXV. Tamlane, sentence 13

He gives as the reason why the Elf-queen would have "ta'en out Tamlane's two grey eyne," so that henceforth he should not be able to see the fairies.

Who acts: Catskin · What happens: give, ta'en out, not be, see · To what, where: Elf queen, fairies

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXV. Tamlane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catskin), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 reason	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obl
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 ta'en	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 queen	det
8	Elf	Elf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 queen	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Elf	punct
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ta'en	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ta'en	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 ta'en	aux
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ta'en	punct
14	ta'en	ta'en	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 reason	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 ta'en	compound:prt
16	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 eyne	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Tamlane	case
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 eyne	nummod
19	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eyne	amod
20	eyne	eyne	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ta'en	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 able	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 able	mark
25	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	30 able	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 able	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 able	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 able	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	cop
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gives	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fairies	det
34	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 see	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	Catskin		as the reason	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	ta'en out in a quote	would · perfect · passive		the Elf queen		tree rules
3	not is	should	Catskin		able, henceforth property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	Catskin not said here	the fairies		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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