Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 34

It came into his head then that perhaps it was poison that was in it, and that the good people were only tempting him that he might kill himself with that trick, or put the girl to death without meaning it.

Who acts: water, poison, good people, herb · What happens: come, be, tempt, kill, put, mean · To what, where: head, poison, herb, girl, water

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, poison, good people, herb), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 it	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 it	mark
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	11 poison	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 poison	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 poison	cop
11	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 it	nsubj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 it	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 it	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tempting	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tempting	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 tempting	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tempting	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tempting	aux
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 tempting	advmod
24	tempting	tempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tempting	obj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 kill	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 kill	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 kill	aux
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tempting	advcl
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 kill	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 trick	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 trick	det
33	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kill	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 put	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 put	cc
36	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 girl	det
38	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 put	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 death	case
40	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 put	obl
41	without	without	SCONJ	_	42 meaning	mark
42	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 put	advcl
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 meaning	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	water			herb's head			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location
2	is a	past	water	poison				perhaps property	tree rules
3	is	past	poison			poison	then		tree rules
4	tempt	past · progressive	the good people		herb				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	kill	might	herb	herb				with that trick	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with trick=Instrument
6	put	infinitive	water not said here		the girl			to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent girl=Goal
7	mean	gerund	water not said here	water					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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