Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 137

But stop a bit, my lad," said the king's daughter; "the man that took the heads off the beast, he has my ring and my two earrings."

Who acts: daughter, man, king · What happens: stop, say, take, have · To what, where: bit, heads, beast, ring · 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 (daughter, man, king), 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	_	2 stop	cc
2	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lad	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lad	nmod:poss
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stop	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 stop	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 daughter	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 man	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 heads	det
22	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 took	obj
23	off	off	ADP	_	25 beast	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 beast	det
25	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ring	nmod:poss
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 has	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 earrings	cc
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 earrings	nmod:poss
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 earrings	nummod
34	earrings	earring	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ring	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stop	infinitive		a bit and my lad		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bit=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the king's daughter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	past	the man	the heads	the beast	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off beast=Initial_Location
4	have	present	king	my ring and my two earrings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient

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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