Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 17
"You will not get me," says the flag, "till you get water to wet me."
Who acts: You, flag, water · What happens: not get, say, get, wet · To what, where: flag, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, flag, water), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flag | det |
| 11 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flag | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | parataxis |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wet | mark |
| 19 | wet | wet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 get | xcomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wet | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | future | You | the flag = flag | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the flag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present | you | water | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wet in a quote | to-infinitive | water not said here | the flag = flag | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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