Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 69
They had only to carry her home a dead corpse and bury her.
Who acts: wife · What happens: have, carry, bury · To what, where: home, person
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 (wife), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 carry | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 carry | mark |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 corpse | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 corpse | amod |
| 10 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bury | cc |
| 12 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 carry | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bury | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | wife not said here | person's home | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme home=Beneficiary corpse=Value | ||||
| 3 | bury | infinitive | wife not said here | person | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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