Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 103

But she had not gone far when this great General saw her, and he said to her, "I will kill you if you do not say that 'twas I took the head off the beast." "

Who acts: beast, great General, General, twas · What happens: not go, see, say, kill, not say, take · To what, where: beast, head · 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 (beast, great General, General, twas), 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	_	5 gone	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 saw	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 General	nsubj
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 General	amod
10	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kill	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 kill	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 kill	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 kill	aux
23	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 kill	obj
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 say	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 say	nsubj
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 say	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 say	advmod
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 kill	advcl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 took	mark
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 twas	punct
32	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 took	nsubj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 twas	conj
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 say	ccomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 head	det
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
37	off	off	ADP	_	39 beast	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 beast	det
39	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	beast					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	great General	beast			far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	General		beast			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	kill in a quote	future	General	beast				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	not say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	beast					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take in a quote	past	twas	the head		the beast		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off beast=Initial_Location

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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