Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 10

"Give me place," she said; "I am the Witch of the two Horns," and she began to spin as quick as lightning.

Who acts: mistress · What happens: give, say, be, begin, spin · To what, where: place, mistress, Witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The 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 (mistress), 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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 Witch	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Witch	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 Witch	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Witch	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Witch	det
14	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 Horns	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Horns	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 Horns	nummod
18	Horns	Horn	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 Witch	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Horns	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Horns	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 spin	mark
25	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 quick	advmod
27	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 spin	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 lightning	case
29	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 quick	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	infinitive		place	mistress		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient place=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	mistress				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	mistress	the Witch		of the two Horns	tree rules
4	begin	past	mistress				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	spin	to-infinitive	mistress not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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