English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 18

She noticed that before they went to bed the giant put straw ropes round her neck and her sisters', and round his own lassies' necks he put gold chains.

Who acts: youngest, lassies, voice · What happens: notice, go, put · To what, where: bed, straw ropes, gold chains

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, lassies, voice), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 noticed	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 giant	ccomp
12	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ropes	compound
13	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	obj
14	round	round	ADP	_	16 neck	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 neck	nmod:poss
16	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sisters	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sisters	nmod:poss
19	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 neck	conj
20	',	',	PART	_	19 sisters	case
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 necks	cc
22	round	round	ADP	_	27 necks	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lassies	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lassies	amod
25	lassies	lassie	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 necks	nmod:poss
26	'	's	PART	_	25 lassies	case
27	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 neck	conj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	nsubj
29	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 necks	acl:relcl
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chains	compound
31	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 put	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	youngest = young				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	past	lassies = lassie		bed	giant property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
3	put	infinitive	lassies = lassie not said here	straw ropes		round youngest's neck and youngest's sisters and voice's own lassies's necks	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rope=Goal
4	put	past	voice	gold chains			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chain=Goal

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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