Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 7

52 4, in which a "woman of peace" (a fairy) borrows a woman's kettle and returns it with flesh in it, but at last the woman refuses, and is persecuted by the fairy.

Who acts: 52 4, fairy · What happens: borrow, return, refuse, persecute · To what, where: kettle, flesh, last

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (52 4, fairy), 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	52	52	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 4	compound
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 borrows	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 borrows	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 borrows	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 woman	punct
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 borrows	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 peace	case
10	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	nmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 woman	punct
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 fairy	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fairy	det
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	appos
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 fairy	punct
16	borrows	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kettle	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 woman	case
20	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 borrows	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 returns	cc
22	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 borrows	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 returns	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 flesh	case
25	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 returns	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 returns	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 refuses	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 refuses	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 last	case
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 refuses	obl:unmarked
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 woman	det
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 last	nsubj
34	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 borrows	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 persecuted	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 persecuted	cc
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 persecuted	aux:pass
38	persecuted	persecute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 refuses	conj
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 fairy	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 fairy	det
41	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 persecuted	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 borrows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	borrow	present	52 4	a woman's kettle			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme
2	return	present	52 4 not said here	kettle	flesh	with flesh	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	refuse	present	52 4 not said here		last		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	persecute	present · passive	the fairy				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/7/