Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 100

I am safe for one night, but the beast will come again and again, until the other two heads come off it."

Who acts: I, beast, other two heads · What happens: be, come, come off · To what, where: victory

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beast, other two heads), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 safe	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 night	nummod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 safe	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beast	det
10	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 safe	parataxis
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 again	cc
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 again	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 come	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 heads	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heads	amod
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 heads	nummod
21	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 come	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 come	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 safe	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 safe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		night	safe property	tree rules
2	come	future	the beast		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come off	present	the other two heads	victory			tree rules

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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