Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 38

But if your secret is legged like a young goat!

What happens: leg · To what, where: secret

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	6 legged	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 legged	mark
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 secret	nmod:poss
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 legged	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 legged	aux:pass
6	legged	leg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 goat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 goat	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 goat	amod
10	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 legged	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 legged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	present · passive		your secret				like a young goat	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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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