Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 162

He killed Auburn Mary, cut the flesh from her body, and unjointed the bones, as she had told him.

Who acts: son, Auburn Mary, five · What happens: kill, cut, unjoint, tell · To what, where: flesh, body, bones, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Auburn Mary, five), 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	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Auburn	Auburn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mary	compound
4	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 killed	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flesh	det
8	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 body	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 unjointed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 unjointed	cc
14	unjointed	unjoint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bones	det
16	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 unjointed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 told	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	aux
21	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 unjointed	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	kill	past	son				tree rules
2	cut	infinitive	Auburn Mary	the flesh		five's body	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent flesh=Product from body=Material
3	unjoint	past	son not said here	the bones			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	five		son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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