Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 8

She lay down on the bed, and vowed she would never be well until she could get the heart and the liver of Gold-tree, her daughter, to eat.

Who acts: Troutie · What happens: lie down, vow, not be, get, eat · To what, where: bed, heart

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 (Troutie), 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 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 vowed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 vowed	cc
9	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 would	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 vowed	ccomp
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 well	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 well	cop
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 would	advmod
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 get	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 well	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heart	det
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 liver	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 liver	det
23	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heart	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 tree	case
25	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tree	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Gold	punct
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 liver	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 daughter	punct
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 daughter	nmod:poss
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heart	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eat	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 eat	mark
33	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 get	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Troutie		the bed	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
2	vow	past	Troutie not said here				tree rules
3	not is	infinitive				well property	tree rules
4	get	could	Troutie	the heart and the liver of Gold tree and Troutie's daughter			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus
5	eat	to-infinitive	Troutie not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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