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Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 37

Now it happened that the hostess had plotted with a certain monk in Market-Jew to murder the old man in his bed that night while the rest were asleep, and they agreed to lay it on the lodgers.

Who acts: it, rest, man · What happens: happen, plot, murder, be, agree, lay · To what, where: hostess, old man, bed, rest, lodgers

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, rest, man), 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

advmodnsubjmarkdetnsubj:passauxadvclcasedetamodoblcasenmodpunctconjmarkadvcldetamodobjcasenmod:possobldetobl:unmarkedmarkdetnsubjcopadvclpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompobjcasedetoblpunctrootNowADVitPRONhappenedVERBthatSCONJtheDEThostessNOUNhadAUXplottedVERBwithADPaDETcertainADJmonkNOUNinADPMarketPROPN-PUNCTJewPROPNtoPARTmurderVERBtheDEToldADJmanNOUNinADPhisPRONbedNOUNthatDETnightNOUNwhileSCONJtheDETrestNOUNwereAUXasleepADJ,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONagreedVERBtoPARTlayVERBitPRONonADPtheDETlodgersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem3 happenedadvmod
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 happenednsubj
3happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_8 plottedmark
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 hostessdet
6hostesshostessNOUNNumber=Sing8 plottednsubj:pass
7hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 plottedaux
8plottedplotVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 happenedadvcl
9withwithADP_12 monkcase
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 monkdet
11certaincertainADJDegree=Pos12 monkamod
12monkmonkNOUNNumber=Sing8 plottedobl
13ininADP_14 Marketcase
14MarketMarketPROPNNumber=Sing12 monknmod
15--PUNCT_16 Jewpunct
16JewJewPROPNNumber=Sing14 Marketconj
17totoPART_18 murdermark
18murdermurderVERBVerbForm=Inf8 plottedadvcl
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 mandet
20oldoldADJDegree=Pos21 manamod
21manmanNOUNNumber=Sing18 murderobj
22ininADP_24 bedcase
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 bednmod:poss
24bedbedNOUNNumber=Sing18 murderobl
25thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem26 nightdet
26nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing18 murderobl:unmarked
27whilewhileSCONJ_31 asleepmark
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 restdet
29restrestNOUNNumber=Sing31 asleepnsubj
30werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 asleepcop
31asleepasleepADJDegree=Pos18 murderadvcl
32,,PUNCT_35 agreedpunct
33andandCCONJ_35 agreedcc
34theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs35 agreednsubj
35agreedagreeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 happenedconj
36totoPART_37 laymark
37laylayVERBVerbForm=Inf35 agreedxcomp
38ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 layobj
39ononADP_41 lodgerscase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 lodgersdet
41lodgerslodgerNOUNNumber=Plur37 layobl
42..PUNCT_3 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastitnowvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2plotpast · perfect · passivethe hostesswith a certain monk in Market and Jewvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3murderto-infinitivethe old manJew's bednightvn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4ispastthe restasleep propertytree rules
5agree speech: agreepastmanvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6lay not said to happento-infinitiveman not said hererestthe lodgersvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on lodger=Destination

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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