Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 101

He caught the beast's head, and he drew a knot through it, and he told her to bring it with her there to-morrow.

Who acts: luck · What happens: catch, draw, tell, bring · To what, where: head, knot, beast · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (luck), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beast	det
4	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 beast	case
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drew	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drew	nsubj
10	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 knot	det
12	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drew	obj
13	through	through	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drew	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bring	mark
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 bring	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 morrow	case
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 to	punct
28	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 there	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	luck	the beast's head				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	draw	past	luck	a knot		head		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	luck		beast			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	luck not said here	head		there	with beast	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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