Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 92

She beckoned to him to come a bit nearer to her, and she said her name was Auburn Mary but she told him to go this time, but to be sure to be at the same place about that dead midnight.

Who acts: mother, name · What happens: beckon, come, say, be, tell, go · To what, where: giant, bit, Auburn, same place · 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 (mother, name), 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 beckoned	nsubj
2	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beckoned	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 beckoned	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
9	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 bit	amod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nearer	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beckoned	parataxis
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 name	nmod:poss
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Auburn	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Auburn	cop
19	Auburn	Auburn	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
20	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Auburn	flat
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beckoned	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	xcomp
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sure	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 sure	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	33 sure	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 sure	cop
33	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 beckoned	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	39 place	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 place	cop
36	at	at	ADP	_	39 place	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 place	det
38	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 place	amod
39	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sure	ccomp
40	about	about	ADP	_	43 midnight	case
41	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 midnight	det
42	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 midnight	amod
43	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 place	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beckoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beckon	past	mother		giant				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	come	to-infinitive	mother not said here	a bit					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	mother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	mother's name	Auburn					tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	mother		giant				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here				time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	to-infinitive						sure property	tree rules
8	is	to-infinitive				the same place	midnight		tree rules
9	name		mother						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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