--- title: She jumped in, and cut an apple into nine shares, and she put two sh… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She jumped in, and cut an apple into nine shares, and she put two shares at the head of the bed, and two shares at the foot of the bed, and two shares at the door of the kitchen, and two shares at the big door, and one outside the house. Who acts: filly. 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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 (filly), 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:pg7885:31:185 # text = She jumped in, and cut an apple into nine shares, and she put two shares at the head of the bed, and two shares at the foot of the bed, and two shares at the door of the kitchen, and two shares at the big door, and one outside the house. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 shares share NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 shares share NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 shares share NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 shares share NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 nummod _ _ 47 shares share NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 48 at at ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 55 outside outside ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump in** | past | filly | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cut** | infinitive | filly *not said here* | a apple | | nine shares | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent apple=Material into share=Product | | 3 | **put** | past | filly | two shares | | the head of the bed | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent share=Theme at head=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. - ← previous: [sentence 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/184/) - next →: [sentence 186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/186/) - ↑ back to [The Battle of the Birds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/)