Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 189

When I got out of the caldron I knew not what to do; and she said to me that there was no weapon that would kill him but his own weapon.

Who acts: I, head, weapon · What happens: get out, not know, do, say, be, kill · To what, where: caldron, me, weapon · 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, head, weapon), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 caldron	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 caldron	det
7	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caldron	acl:relcl
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 knew	advmod
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 knew	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 what	acl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 was	mark
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 weapon	det
24	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 kill	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 kill	aux
27	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 weapon	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kill	obj
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 weapon	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 weapon	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 weapon	amod
32	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kill	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get out	past	I				of the caldron; out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of caldron=Source
2	not know	past	I	the caldron not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer caldron=Stimulus
3	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	the caldron not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	head		me			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to i=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	be	past	no weapon			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	kill	would	no weapon	weapon				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/189/