English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 18

And as she girt it round his waist, she said the spell that would give it victory.

Who acts: queen, spell · What happens: girt, say, give · To what, where: brand, spell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, spell), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 girt	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 girt	nsubj
4	girt	girt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 girt	obj
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 waist	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 waist	nmod:poss
8	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girt	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 girt	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spell	det
13	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 give	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 spell	acl:relcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	obj
18	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	girt	infinitive	queen	brand	round Merlin's waist	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	queen	the spell		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent spell=Topic
3	give	would	the spell	brand		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient victory=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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