Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 70
In went the crone, and when her back was to him he drew his sword and whips her head off; but the sword flew out of his hand.
Who acts: back, sword · What happens: go, be, whip off, fly out · To what, where: crone, head, 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 (back, sword), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 went | case |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crone | det |
| 4 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drew | cc |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drew | cop |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 was | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sword | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 whips | cc |
| 18 | whips | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 drew | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whips | obj |
| 21 | off | off | ADV | _ | 18 whips | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 flew | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 flew | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sword | det |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flew | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the crone | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crone=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | back | draw property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | whip off | present | back not said here | crone's head | off property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | |||
| 4 | fly out | past | the sword | back's hand | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
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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