Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 25

Let a woman alone, in the meantime, for ferreting or wheedling a secret out of her good man, when she wishes.

Who acts: you, woman · What happens: let, ferret, wheedle, wish · To what, where: woman, meantime, secret

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Let	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 meantime	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 meantime	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meantime	det
8	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ferreting	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 ferreting	mark
11	ferreting	ferret	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Let	advcl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 wheedling	cc
13	wheedling	wheedle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ferreting	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 secret	det
15	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wheedling	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	20 man	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 man	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 man	nmod:poss
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wheedling	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wishes	punct
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 wishes	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wishes	nsubj
24	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ferreting	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	a woman	the meantime	alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
2	ferret	gerund	you not said here				tree rules
3	wheedle	gerund	you not said here	a secret		out woman's good man	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient
4	wish	present	woman				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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