Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 45

But Kay, snatching a billet out of the pile, placed the log between her two hands, and she squeezed it so that it became a twisted coil.

Who acts: Kay, wife, log · What happens: snatch, place, squeeze, become · To what, where: billet, pile, log, two hands, twisted coil

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, wife, log), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 placed	cc
2	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 placed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snatching	punct
4	snatching	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Kay	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 billet	det
6	billet	billet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snatching	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 pile	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pile	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pile	det
10	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snatching	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Kay	punct
12	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 log	det
14	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 placed	obj
15	between	between	ADP	_	18 hands	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hands	nummod
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 log	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 squeezed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 squeezed	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 squeezed	nsubj
22	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 placed	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 squeezed	obj
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 became	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 became	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 squeezed	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 coil	det
29	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 coil	amod
30	coil	coil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 became	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	snatch	gerund	Kay not said here	a billet	the pile	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent billet=Theme out pile=Source
2	place	past	Kay	the log	wife's two hands	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent log=Theme between hand=Destination
3	squeeze	past	wife	log		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	become	past	log	a twisted coil		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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