Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 139

He must come and shoot the whale with a silver bullet when he turns on the broad of his back.

Who acts: husband · What happens: come, shoot, turn · To what, where: whale, broad

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 (husband), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shoot	cc
5	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whale	det
7	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoot	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 bullet	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bullet	det
10	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bullet	amod
11	bullet	bullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoot	obl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 turns	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turns	nsubj
14	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shoot	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 broad	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 broad	det
17	broad	broad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turns	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 back	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 back	nmod:poss
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 broad	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	must	husband				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shoot	infinitive	husband not said here	the whale		with a silver bullet	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent whale=Patient with bullet=Instrument
3	turn	present	husband		the broad of husband's back		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on broad=Trajectory

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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