Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 71

And swift the crone gripped her head with both hands, and puts it on her neck as it was before.

Who acts: you, crone, head · What happens: swift, grip, put, be · To what, where: head, neck

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 (you, crone, head), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 swift	cc
2	swift	swift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crone	det
4	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gripped	nsubj
5	gripped	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swift	ccomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gripped	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hands	det
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gripped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 puts	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 puts	cc
13	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 swift	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 puts	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 neck	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neck	nmod:poss
17	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 puts	obl
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 before	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 before	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 before	cop
21	before	before	ADV	_	13 puts	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swift	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	grip	past	the crone	crone's head		with both hands	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer with hand=Instrument
3	put	present	you not said here	head	crone's neck		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on neck=Destination
4	is	past	head			before property	tree rules

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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