Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 119

The General met her, and took the heads from her, and he said to her, that she must tell that it was he who took the head off the beast this time also. "

Who acts: General, daughter, it · What happens: meet, take, say, tell, be · To what, where: daughter, heads · 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 (General, daughter, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 General	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 met	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 took	cc
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heads	det
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 tell	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 took	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 took	cop
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	nsubj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 head	det
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
31	off	off	ADP	_	33 beast	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beast	det
33	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obl
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
36	also	also	ADV	_	28 took	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the General	daughter				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
2	take	past	the General not said here	the heads			from daughter	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme from she=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	General		daughter			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	must	daughter					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	it			time	off the beast; take property	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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