Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 9

“Find a perfectly white cow with red ears, and boil it down in the lump, and if the king drinks that rendering he will recover.”

Who acts: you, king · What happens: find, boil down, drink, render, recover · To what, where: white cow, medicine, lump · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king), 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 Find	punct
2	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 white	advmod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cow	amod
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Find	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 ears	case
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ears	amod
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cow	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 boil	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 boil	cc
12	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Find	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 boil	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 boil	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 lump	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lump	det
17	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boil	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drinks	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drinks	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 drinks	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drinks	nsubj
23	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Find	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 rendering	mark
25	rendering	render	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 drinks	advcl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 recover	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 recover	aux
28	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 rendering	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Find	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a white cow		with red ears	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic
2	boil down in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	medicine	the lump		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	drink a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the king				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	render in a quote	gerund	the king not said here				tree rules
5	recover in a quote	future	king				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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