Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 23
But the Spirit of the Well bade the mistress of the house to enter and prepare her home against the enchantments of the witches if they returned again.
Who acts: enchantments · What happens: enter, prepare, return, enchant · To what, where: home, witches
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 (enchantments), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 bade | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Spirit | det |
| 3 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bade | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bade | det |
| 6 | Well | Well | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | compound |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mistress | det |
| 9 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mistress | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 enter | mark |
| 14 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mistress | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prepare | cc |
| 16 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 enter | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 home | nmod:poss |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prepare | obj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 enchantments | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 enchantments | det |
| 21 | enchantments | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 prepare | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 witches | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 witches | det |
| 24 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 enchantments | nmod |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 returned | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 returned | nsubj |
| 27 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 prepare | advcl |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 returned | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | prepare | infinitive | mistress's home | against the enchantments of the witches | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | ||||
| 3 | return a condition, not said to happen | past | enchantments = enchantment | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enchant | the witches | nom enchantment «feeling 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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