Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 132

Who should take the heads off the knot but the man that put the heads on?" said the king.

Who acts: man · What happens: take, put on, say · To what, where: heads, knot, king · 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 (man), 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 take	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heads	det
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 knot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knot	det
8	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heads	det
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	13 put	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	should		the heads	the knot	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off knot=Initial_Location
2	put on	past	the man	the heads		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the man	the king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=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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