Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 104

Oh!" says she, "'tis I will say it; who else took the head off the beast but you!"

What happens: say, take · To what, where: tis, head, 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: 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 tis	punct
9	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 took	nsubj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 who	advmod
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
20	off	off	ADP	_	22 beast	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beast	det
22	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 you	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 took	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	future	tis		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	take	past	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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