Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 81
Oh, he is a great General of arms," said the dairymaid, "and when he kills the beast, he will marry the king's daughter, for the king has said that he who could save his daughter should get her to marry."
Who acts: suitor, king, daughter, beast · What happens: be, say, kill, marry, save, get · To what, where: great General, dairymaid, beast, daughter · 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 (suitor, king, daughter, beast), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 General | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 General | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 General | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 General | amod |
| 7 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Oh | vocative |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 General | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dairymaid | det |
| 14 | dairymaid | dairymaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dairymaid | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 dairymaid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 marry | cc |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 kills | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kills | nsubj |
| 20 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 marry | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beast | det |
| 22 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kills | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kills | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 marry | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 marry | aux |
| 26 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 king | case |
| 30 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 marry | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 said | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 said | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 king | det |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 said | nsubj |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 said | aux |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 marry | parataxis |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 save | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 save | nsubj |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 save | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 save | aux |
| 41 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 said | ccomp |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 43 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 get | nsubj |
| 44 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 get | aux |
| 45 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 save | ccomp |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 get | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 marry | mark |
| 48 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 get | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 said | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | suitor | a great General | of arms | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the dairymaid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dairymaid=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill | present | suitor | the beast | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | ||||
| 4 | marry | future | suitor | the king's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | save | could | suitor | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | get | should | suitor's daughter | beast | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | marry | to-infinitive | beast not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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