Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 13

Strange to hear, and frightful to look upon, were these twelve women, with their horns and their wheels; and the mistress felt near to death, and she tried to rise that she might call for help, but she could not move, nor could she utter a word or a cry, for the spell of the witches was upon her.

Who acts: Strange twelve women, mistress, spell · What happens: hear, look, be, feel, try, rise · To what, where: Strange twelve women, death, word, witches · 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 (Strange twelve women, mistress, spell), 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	Strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 women	amod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 hear	mark
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Strange	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 frightful	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 frightful	cc
6	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Strange	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 frightful	xcomp
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 look	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Strange	punct
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 women	cop
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 women	det
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 women	nummod
14	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 felt	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 horns	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 horns	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 horns	nmod:poss
18	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 women	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wheels	cc
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wheels	nmod:poss
21	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 horns	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 felt	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 felt	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mistress	det
25	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 felt	nsubj
26	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 death	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 felt	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tried	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tried	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tried	nsubj
33	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 felt	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 rise	mark
35	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 tried	xcomp
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 call	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 call	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 call	aux
39	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 rise	advcl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 help	case
41	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 call	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 move	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 move	cc
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 move	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 move	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 move	advmod
47	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 felt	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 utter	punct
49	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	52 utter	cc
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 utter	aux
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 utter	nsubj
52	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 move	conj
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 word	det
54	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 utter	obj
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	57 cry	cc
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 cry	det
57	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 word	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 spell	punct
59	for	for	ADP	_	61 spell	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 spell	det
61	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 her	nsubj
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 witches	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 witches	det
64	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 spell	nmod
65	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 her	cop
66	upon	upon	ADP	_	67 her	case
67	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 utter	parataxis
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	to-infinitive					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	look	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	past		this Strange twelve women		with family's horns and family's wheels	tree rules
4	feel	past	this Strange twelve women		death		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent near death=Location
5	try	past	mistress				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	rise not said to happen	to-infinitive	mistress not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	call	might	mistress			for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient
8	not move	could	mistress				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	utter speech: other	could	mistress	a word or a cry			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
10	is	past	the spell of the witches			upon word	tree rules
11	spell			the witches			nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient

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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