Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 25
"Because they are entering into trouble; and trouble is upon you; for that is the second causeless blow you have given me.
Who acts: gloves, trouble, that · What happens: enter, be, give · To what, where: trouble, second causeless blow, shepherd
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 (gloves, trouble, that), 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 | _ | 5 entering | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 entering | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 entering | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 entering | aux |
| 5 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 trouble | case |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entering | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 you | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 you | cc |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 you | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 you | cop |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 entering | parataxis |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 given | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 blow | mark |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 blow | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 blow | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blow | det |
| 19 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 blow | amod |
| 20 | causeless | causeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 blow | amod |
| 21 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 given | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 given | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 given | aux |
| 24 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 entering | advcl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 given | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter in a quote | present · progressive | gloves = glove | trouble | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into trouble=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | trouble | upon you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | the second causeless blow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the second causeless blow | shepherd | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme |
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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