Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 16

Then she told him she would be as good a wife to him as any earthly maiden could be unless he should strike her three times without cause.

Who acts: Myddvai, shepherd · What happens: tell, be, strike · To what, where: shepherd, Myddvai · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Myddvai, shepherd), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 good	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 good	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 good	cop
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 good	advmod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wife	det
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 good	nsubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 could	mark
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 maiden	det
16	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 maiden	amod
17	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 could	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
19	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 could	conj
20	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	23 strike	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 strike	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 strike	aux
23	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 be	ccomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 strike	obj
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 times	nummod
26	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 strike	obl:unmarked
27	without	without	ADP	_	28 cause	case
28	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 strike	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Myddvai		shepherd	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	would	Myddvai				good property	tree rules
3	be	infinitive	Myddvai not said here					tree rules
4	strike a condition, not said to happen	should	shepherd	Myddvai		time	without cause	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument

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.

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