Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 43

It is not a great thing for you to keep your mouth shut and your tongue quiet when you get a home and shelter of a hearth on a gloomy winter's night."

Who acts: restraint, you · What happens: not be, keep, get · To what, where: great thing, mouth, home

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 (restraint, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 thing	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 keep	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 keep	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj
13	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 quiet	cc
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tongue	nmod:poss
16	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quiet	nsubj
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shut	conj
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 get	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
20	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 home	det
22	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shelter	cc
24	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 home	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 hearth	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hearth	det
27	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shelter	nmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	33 night	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 winter	det
30	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 winter	amod
31	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 night	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 winter	case
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hearth	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	restraint	a great thing		tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	you	your mouth	shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
3	get	present	you	a home and shelter of a hearth on a gloomy winter's night		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus

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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