Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 132

That night he put his sword between them, and said: "If you are my wife, this sword will get warm; if not, it will stay cold."

Who acts: eldest, you, sword · What happens: put, say, be, get, stay · To what, where: sword, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, you, 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sword	nmod:poss
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
14	If	if	SCONJ	_	18 wife	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 wife	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wife	cop
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 sword	det
21	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
24	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 get	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 stay	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 not	mark
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 stay	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 not	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stay	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 stay	aux
31	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
32	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stay	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	eldest = eld	eldest's sword	night	between princes = prince	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme between they=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	my wife			tree rules
4	get in a quote	future	this sword			warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	stay in a quote	future	sword			cold property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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