Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 104
Just undo the cord, and let me out; they tied me up tight, as they knew I'd run away from her."
Who acts: you, jewels, I · What happens: undo, let out, tie up, know, run away · To what, where: cord, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, jewels, I), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 undo | advmod |
| 2 | undo | undo | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cord | det |
| 4 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 undo | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 undo | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 let | compound:prt |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tied | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tied | nsubj |
| 12 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 undo | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tied | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 tied | compound:prt |
| 15 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 12 tied | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 knew | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 undo | parataxis |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 run | nsubj |
| 21 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 run | aux |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 knew | ccomp |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 run | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 run | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 undo | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 undo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undo | imperative | you not said here | the cord | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let out | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tie up | past | jewels = jewel | me | tight property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 4 | know | past | jewels = jewel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | run away | would | I | from back; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory |
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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