Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 165

He now placed all the bones of Auburn Mary in order again at the side of the spring, put the flesh on them, sprinkled it with water from the spring.

Who acts: son · What happens: place, put, sprinkle · To what, where: bones, order, flesh

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), 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 placed	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 placed	advmod
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bones	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bones	det
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 placed	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Mary	case
8	Auburn	Auburn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mary	compound
9	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bones	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 order	case
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	3 placed	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 side	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 spring	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spring	det
18	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 placed	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flesh	det
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sprinkled	punct
26	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sprinkled	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 water	case
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sprinkled	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 spring	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 spring	det
32	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sprinkled	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	son	all bones of Auburn Mary	order	now; again	at the side of the spring	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in order=Destination
2	put	infinitive	son not said here	the flesh			on bones = bone	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme on they=Destination
3	sprinkle	past	son not said here	flesh		spring	with water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with water=Theme

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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