Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 5
When she restores the husband to the wife in one of the variants, she brings him out of her mouth! "
Who acts: Mr. · What happens: restore, bring · To what, where: husband, wife, mouth
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr.), 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 | 3 restores | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 restores | nsubj |
| 3 | restores | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 brings | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 husband | det |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 restores | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 restores | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 wife | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 variants | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 variants | det |
| 13 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brings | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brings | nsubj |
| 16 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brings | iobj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brings | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 brings | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | present | Mr. | the husband | the wife in one of the variants | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Theme to wife=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bring | present | Mr. | husband | Mr.'s mouth | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out mouth=Initial_Location |
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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