--- title: She then platted them into three plats with three colours in each, p… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She then platted them into three plats with three colours in each, putting one on her right arm, one round her heart, and the third round her right ankle, for then she knew that nothing could fail with her that she undertook. Who acts: wife, nothing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, nothing), 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:pg7885:22:55 # text = She then platted them into three plats with three colours in each, putting one on her right arm, one round her heart, and the third round her right ankle, for then she knew that nothing could fail with her that she undertook. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 platted plat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 plats plat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 conj _ _ 22 round round ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 parataxis _ _ 29 round round ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 ankle ankle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 obl _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 41 nsubj _ _ 40 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 undertook undertake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plat** | past | wife | threads *= thread* | | three plats with three colours in each | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **put** | gerund | wife *not said here* | one | | wife's right arm | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on arm=Destination | | 3 | **know** | past | wife | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **fail** | could | nothing | | | | | with wife | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **undertake** | past | wife | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/56/) - ↑ back to [A Legend of Knockmany](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/)