Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 174

I went in, and I said to her, 'What was the matter that you were putting the knife on the neck of the child?' '

Who acts: I, that · What happens: go in, say, be, put · To what, where: woman, matter, knife, neck · Speech: someone speaks here

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, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 matter	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 matter	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 putting	nsubj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 putting	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 putting	aux
19	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 matter	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 knife	det
21	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 putting	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 neck	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 neck	det
24	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 putting	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 child	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 child	det
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 neck	nmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 putting	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go in	past	I				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	I		woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	is a	past		the matter			tree rules
4	put	past · progressive	that	the knife		the neck of the child	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme on neck=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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