Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 43
The very next morning the hostess raised the cry that her husband was murdered, and as there was neither man nor child in the house but the merchants, she declared they ought to be hanged for it.
Who acts: hostess, cry · What happens: raise, murder, be, hange · To what, where: cry, husband, man
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 (hostess, cry), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 next | advmod |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hostess | det |
| 6 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | nsubj |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cry | det |
| 9 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 murdered | mark |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 murdered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 murdered | aux:pass |
| 14 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cry | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 declared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 declared | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 was | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 declared | cop |
| 20 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 man | cc:preconj |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 child | cc |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | nmod |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 merchants | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 merchants | det |
| 29 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 man | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 declared | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 declared | nsubj |
| 32 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 raised | conj |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 hanged | aux |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 hanged | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 hanged | aux:pass |
| 37 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 declared | parataxis |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hanged | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the hostess | the cry | morning | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | |||
| 2 | murder | past · passive | the cry not said here | hostess's husband | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | hostess | declare property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hange | ought · passive | man | for house | tree rules |
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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