Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 19
This she did, and the sieve held the water for the cake; and the voice said again:
Who acts: This, sieve, voice · What happens: do, hold, say · To what, where: water · 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 (This, sieve, voice), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 held | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 held | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sieve | det |
| 7 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | nsubj |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 cake | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cake | det |
| 13 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold | past | the sieve | the water | for the cake | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the voice | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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