More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 22

But thou 'll have to read me a riddle so as I can see thou 'st brought the right thing, and if thy brains is about thee.

Who acts: thou, I, st, brains · What happens: have, read, see, bring, be · To what, where: riddle, me, thou, right thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, I, st, brains), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 have	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 read	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 riddle	det
9	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 see	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 read	conj
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 see	obj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
17	st	St	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 brought	nsubj
18	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 see	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brought	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thee	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thee	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 brains	mark
25	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 brains	nmod:poss
26	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 thee	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 thee	cop
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 thee	case
29	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 have	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	future	thou				tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive	thou not said here	a riddle	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient riddle=Topic
3	see	can	I	thou			tree rules
4	bring	past	st	the right thing			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	is	present	thy brains			about thee	tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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