Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 18

Then a voice came by her and said, "Take yellow clay and moss, and bind them together, and plaster the sieve so that it will hold."

Who acts: voice, sieve · What happens: come, say, take, bind, hold · To what, where: yellow clay, clay · 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 (voice, sieve), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 voice	det
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Take	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Take	punct
11	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clay	amod
13	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Take	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 moss	cc
15	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clay	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bind	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bind	cc
18	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Take	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bind	obj
20	together	together	ADV	_	18 bind	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sieve	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sieve	cc
23	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sieve	compound
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sieve	det
25	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	parataxis
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 hold	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hold	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 hold	aux
30	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sieve	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 hold	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a voice		then	by mistress	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a voice not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	infinitive		yellow clay and moss			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Theme
4	bind in a quote	infinitive		clay		together property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	hold in a quote	future	sieve				vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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