Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 68

Silver-tree put her mouth to it, and the second wife went and struck it so that some of it went down her throat, and she fell dead.

Who acts: Silver tree, second wife, some, person · What happens: put, go, strike, go down, fall · To what, where: mouth, throat

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 (Silver tree, second wife, some, person), 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	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Silver	punct
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouth	nmod:poss
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 wife	amod
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 struck	cc
16	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 struck	obj
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 went	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 went	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 some	nmod
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 struck	advcl
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 throat	nmod:poss
26	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fell	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fell	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	put	past	Silver tree	person's mouth	mouth		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouth=Goal
2	go	past	the second wife				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strike	past	the second wife not said here	mouth			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	go down	past	some	person's throat		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	fall	past	person			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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