Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 41

She began to turn and try to wake her, and she noticed the poisoned stab in her finger.

Who acts: mother · What happens: begin, turn, try, wake, notice, poison · To what, where: mother, 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), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 turn	mark
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 try	cc
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wake	mark
8	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wake	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 noticed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 noticed	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 noticed	nsubj
13	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stab	det
15	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stab	amod
16	stab	stab	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 noticed	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 finger	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 finger	nmod:poss
19	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stab	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	mother			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	turn	to-infinitive	mother not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	try	infinitive	mother not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wake not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here	mother		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	notice	past	mother	the poisoned stab	mother's finger	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stab=Stimulus
6	poison	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «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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