Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 133

Then I went and I put my legs in place of his legs, and my hands in place of his forelegs, and my head in place of his head, and the horns on top of my head, so that the brute might think that it was the buck.

Who acts: I, brute · What happens: go, put, think, be · To what, where: hands, legs, place, buck

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, brute), 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	3 went	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 put	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 place	case
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 legs	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 legs	nmod:poss
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 place	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hands	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hands	cc
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 place	case
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hands	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 forelegs	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 forelegs	nmod:poss
22	forelegs	foreleg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 place	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 head	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 head	cc
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 place	case
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 head	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 place	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 horns	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 horns	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 horns	det
35	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 top	case
37	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 horns	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 head	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 head	nmod:poss
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 top	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 think	punct
42	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	47 think	mark
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 so	fixed
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 brute	det
45	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 think	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 think	aux
47	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 buck	mark
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 buck	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 buck	cop
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 buck	det
52	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 think	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	I	my hands in place of leech's forelegs		then	my head in place of leech's head obl; the horns on top of my head obl	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past	I	my legs	place of leech's legs			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme in place=Destination
3	think speech: other	might	the brute					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	brute	the buck				tree rules

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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