Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 168

She tried to put the knife to the throat of the babe, and the babe began to laugh in her face, and she began to cry, and she threw the knife behind her.

Who acts: woman, babe · What happens: try, put, begin, laugh, cry, throw · To what, where: knife

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 (woman, babe), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 put	mark
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 throat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 throat	det
9	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 babe	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 babe	det
12	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throat	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 babe	det
16	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 laugh	mark
19	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 face	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 face	nmod:poss
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laugh	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 began	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 cry	mark
28	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 threw	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 threw	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 threw	nsubj
32	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 knife	det
34	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threw	obj
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 threw	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	woman			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the knife	to the throat of the babe	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent knife=Goal
3	begin	past	the babe			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	laugh	to-infinitive	the babe not said here		in woman's face	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme
5	begin	past	woman			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	woman not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	throw	past	woman	the knife	behind babe	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent knife=Theme behind she=Destination

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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