Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 120
Who else took the head off the beast but you?" said she.
Who acts: beast · What happens: take, say · To what, where: 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: who acts (beast), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 beast | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beast | det |
| 8 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 you | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the head | the beast | else property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off beast=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | beast | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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