Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 173

When he got hold of her hand in both his hands, he let his foot down on the egg, and the sea-maiden died.

Who acts: otter, sea maiden · What happens: get, let down, die, hold · To what, where: hold, hands, foot, egg, hand

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 (otter, sea maiden), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 let	advcl
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 hands	case
9	both	both	CCONJ	_	11 hands	cc:preconj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	nsubj
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 foot	nmod:poss
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	14 let	compound:prt
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 egg	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 egg	det
20	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 died	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 died	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 maiden	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 maiden	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 sea	punct
26	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	nsubj
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 let	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get	past	otter	hold of wife's hand	otter's hands	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
2	let down	past	otter	otter's foot	the egg	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on egg=Asset
3	die	past	the sea maiden			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	hold			wife's hand		nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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