Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 11

"Oh! only a thing--which you may heal if you like."

Who acts: thing, you · What happens: heal, like

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 thing	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 thing	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 heal	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 heal	nsubj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 heal	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 heal	aux
11	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	parataxis
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 like	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
14	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 heal	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal in a quote	may	a thing						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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