Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 36
She put out her little finger, and Silver-tree went and put a poisoned stab in it, and Gold-tree fell dead.
Who acts: mother, Silver tree, Gold tree · What happens: put out, go, put, poison, fall · To what, where: little finger, poisoned stab, finger
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Silver tree, Gold tree), 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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 put | compound:prt |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 finger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 finger | amod |
| 6 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 9 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Silver | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stab | det |
| 16 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 stab | amod |
| 17 | stab | stab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fell | cc |
| 22 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tree | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Gold | punct |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fell | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past | mother | mother's little finger | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Silver tree | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | past | Silver tree not said here | a poisoned stab | finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stab=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 4 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | fall | past | Gold tree | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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