Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 55

She then platted them into three plats with three colours in each, putting one on her right arm, one round her heart, and the third round her right ankle, for then she knew that nothing could fail with her that she undertook.

Who acts: wife, nothing · What happens: plat, put, know, fail, undertake · To what, where: threads, three plats, one, right arm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, nothing), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 platted	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 platted	advmod
3	platted	plat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 platted	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 plats	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 plats	nummod
7	plats	plat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 platted	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 colours	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 colours	nummod
10	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plats	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 colours	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 putting	punct
14	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 platted	advcl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 putting	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 arm	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 arm	nmod:poss
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 arm	amod
19	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 one	conj
22	round	round	ADP	_	24 heart	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heart	nmod:poss
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 one	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 third	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 third	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 third	det
28	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 platted	parataxis
29	round	round	ADP	_	32 ankle	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ankle	nmod:poss
31	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ankle	amod
32	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 third	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 knew	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 then	case
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 knew	obl
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 knew	nsubj
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 third	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 fail	mark
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 fail	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 fail	aux
41	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 knew	ccomp
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 her	case
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 fail	obl
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 undertook	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 undertook	nsubj
46	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 fail	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 platted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plat	past	wife	threads = thread	three plats with three colours in each	then		tree rules
2	put	gerund	wife not said here	one	wife's right arm			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on arm=Destination
3	know	past	wife					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	fail	could	nothing				with wife	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	undertake	past	wife					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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