Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 154

She had no power to speak to her husband till he had killed the whale.

Who acts: whale, power · What happens: have, speak, kill · To what, where: power, cowboy · 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 (whale, power), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 power	det
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 husband	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speak	obl
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 killed	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 killed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 killed	aux
13	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 speak	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 whale	det
15	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 killed	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	whale	no power		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	no power not said here		to whale's husband	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to husband=Co-Agent
3	kill	past · perfect · passive		cowboy		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer whale=Result

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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