Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 131

But when the priest came, she would marry only the one who could take the heads off the knot without cutting it. "

Who acts: priest, one · What happens: come, marry, take, cut · To what, where: heads, knot, head

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 (priest, one), 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	_	12 one	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 marry	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	aux
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 one	csubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 take	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 one	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 heads	det
17	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 take	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	20 knot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 knot	det
20	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 cutting	mark
22	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 take	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cutting	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	the priest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marry	would	priest			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	take	could	the one	the heads	the knot	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off knot=Initial_Location
4	cut	gerund	the one not said here	head		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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