Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 33
When the Law will come, it will do away with the Druid's magic spells that come from the lips of the false black demon."
Who acts: Law, magic spells, Druid · What happens: come, do away, spell · To what, where: lips
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Law, magic spells, Druid), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Law | det |
| 3 | Law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 spells | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Druid | det |
| 13 | Druid | Druid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 spells | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Druid | case |
| 15 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spells | amod |
| 16 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 spells | acl:relcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 lips | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lips | det |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 demon | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 demon | det |
| 24 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 demon | amod |
| 25 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 demon | amod |
| 26 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lips | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | the Law | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do away | future | Law | with the Druid's magic spells; away property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | present | the Druid's magic spells | the lips of the false black demon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | spell | the Druid | nom spell «state 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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