Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 19

The woman said she would, so Malcolm got three men, and he took them away to a large mountain, distant and far from reach, without the knowledge or notice of any one.

Who acts: woman, Malcolm · What happens: say, get, take away, notice · To what, where: three men, heads, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Malcolm), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 would	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 got	advmod
8	Malcolm	Malcolm	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 got	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	15 took	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 mountain	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mountain	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mountain	amod
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 distant	punct
23	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mountain	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reach	cc
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 reach	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 reach	case
27	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 distant	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 knowledge	punct
29	without	without	ADP	_	31 knowledge	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 knowledge	det
31	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	parataxis
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 notice	cc
33	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 knowledge	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 one	case
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 notice	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	Malcolm	three men		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	take away	past	Malcolm	heads = head	to a large mountain; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	notice			any one		nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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