Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 28
Ye may see them plainly to this day, if ye'll only peer close enough.
Who acts: Ye · What happens: see, peer · To what, where: trews
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ye), 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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 peer | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 peer | mark |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 peer | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 peer | aux |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 peer | advmod |
| 14 | peer | peer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 15 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 peer | xcomp |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 close | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | may | Ye | trews = trew | day | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | peer a condition, not said to happen | future | ye | close property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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: «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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