Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 127
But no matter, he took the third head off the beast, and drew it through the knot, and gave it to her.
Who acts: hero · What happens: take, draw, give · To what, where: matter, beast, head, knot
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 (hero), 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 | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 matter | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 head | amod |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 beast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beast | det |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drew | cc |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | obj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 knot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 knot | det |
| 19 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | hero | no matter | the beast | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off beast=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | draw | past | hero not said here | head | the knot | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | hero not said here | head | beast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient |
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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