Celtic Fairy Tales, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree., sentence 3
_Parallels_.--Mr. Macleod heard another version in which "Gold Tree" (anonymous in this variant) is bewitched to kill her father's horse, dog, and cock.
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: hear, bewitch, kill · To what, where: version, Gold Tree, horse
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Macleod | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Macleod | Macleod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | nmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 version | det |
| 9 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 bewitched | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Tree | punct |
| 13 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tree | compound |
| 14 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bewitched | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Tree | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 anonymous | punct |
| 17 | anonymous | anonymous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Tree | appos |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 variant | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 variant | det |
| 20 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 anonymous | obl |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 anonymous | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 23 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 version | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 kill | mark |
| 25 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 bewitched | xcomp |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 horse | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 father | case |
| 29 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kill | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dog | punct |
| 31 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 horse | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cock | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 cock | cc |
| 34 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Parallels Macleod Mr. | another version | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer version=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bewitch | present · passive | Gold Tree | another version | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | Mr.'s father's horse and dog | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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