--- title: But she had not gone far when this great General saw her, and he sai… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But she had not gone far when this great General saw her, and he said to her, "I will kill you if you do not say that 'twas I took the head off the beast." " Who acts: beast, great General, General, twas. 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" **Who acts:** beast, great General, General, twas · **What happens:** not go, see, say, kill, not say, take · **To what, where:** beast, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, great General, General, twas), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:21:103 # text = But she had not gone far when this great General saw her, and he said to her, "I will kill you if you do not say that 'twas I took the head off the beast." " 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 8 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 General General PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 twas twa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 conj _ _ 34 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 off off ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | beast | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | great General | beast | | | | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | General | | beast | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **kill** *in a quote* | future | General | beast | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | beast | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | past | twas | the head | | the beast | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off beast=Initial\_Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/104/) - ↑ back to [The Sea-maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/)