Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 126

"I have three sons, and they are three heroes, and in any harm or danger that may befall you, they will be with you, and I myself will be along with them."

Who acts: Daring Drop, drops, that · What happens: have, be, befall · To what, where: three sons, three heroes, you, harm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daring Drop, drops, 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sons	nummod
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heroes	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heroes	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heroes	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 heroes	cop
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 heroes	nummod
11	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sons	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 befall	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 befall	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 harm	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 harm	det
16	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 befall	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 danger	cc
18	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 harm	conj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 befall	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 befall	aux
21	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 befall	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 you	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 you	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 you	cop
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 myself	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 myself	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 myself	nsubj
32	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 have	obl
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 them	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 them	cop
35	along	along	ADV	_	37 them	advmod
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 myself	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Daring Drop = drop	three sons and three heroes		myself obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	is a in a quote	present	drops = drop	three heroes			tree rules
3	befall in a quote	may	that	you	any harm or danger		tree rules
4	is in a quote	future	drops = drop			with you	tree rules
5	is in a quote	future	Daring Drop = drop not said here			with drops = drop; along property	tree rules

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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