English Fairy Tales, XXIV. Golden Arm., sentence 5

467, of Mrs. Hunt's translation), tells of an innkeeper's wife who had used the liver of a man hanging on the gallows, whose ghost comes to her and tells her what has become of his hair, and his eyes, and the dialogue concludes

Who acts: man, ghost, dialogue, Mrs. Hunt · What happens: tell, use, hang, come, become, conclude · To what, where: eyes, wife, gallows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Golden Arm.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, ghost, dialogue, Mrs. Hunt), 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	467	467	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 translation	punct
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 translation	case
4	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hunt	compound
5	Hunt	Hunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 translation	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Hunt	case
7	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 467	appos
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 translation	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tells	punct
10	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 467	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 wife	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 innkeeper	det
13	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wife	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 innkeeper	case
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tells	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 used	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 used	aux
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wife	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 liver	det
20	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 used	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 man	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 liver	nmod
24	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 man	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 gallows	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gallows	det
27	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hanging	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 comes	punct
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 ghost	nmod:poss
30	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 comes	nsubj
31	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hanging	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 comes	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tells	cc
35	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 comes	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 become	nmod:poss
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 become	nsubj
38	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 become	aux
39	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 tells	ccomp
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 hair	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hair	nmod:poss
42	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 become	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 eyes	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 eyes	cc
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 eyes	nmod:poss
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tells	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 concludes	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 concludes	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 dialogue	det
50	dialogue	dialogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 concludes	nsubj
51	concludes	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 467	conj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present		man's eyes			of a innkeeper's wife	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	past · perfect · passive		a innkeeper's wife				tree rules
3	hang	gerund	a man not said here			the gallows		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on gallows=Location
4	come	present	ghost		wife			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
5	tell speech: assert	present	ghost not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	become	present · perfect					of man's hair	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	conclude	present	the dialogue					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	translate		Mrs. Hunt					nom translation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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