Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 16

“Watch these and this and that,” Fionn would have been told, “and always swim with a knife in your teeth.”

Who acts: you · What happens: watch, tell, swim · To what, where: these, Fionn, teeth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Watch	punct
2	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 Watch	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 this	cc
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 these	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 that	cc
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Watch	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Watch	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Watch	punct
10	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 told	aux:pass
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Watch	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 swim	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 swim	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 swim	cc
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 swim	advmod
19	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 told	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 knife	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 knife	det
22	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swim	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 teeth	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 teeth	nmod:poss
25	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 swim	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Watch	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch in a quote	imperative	you not said here	these		that obl	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		Fionn			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	swim in a quote	present			your teeth	with a knife; always property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tooth=Trajectory

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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