Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 51

I said, 'I'll take the iron one;' for I thought in my heart that if an attack should come on me, I could defend myself better with the iron than the wooden pike.

Who acts: I, heart · What happens: say, take, think, come, defend · To what, where: iron, heart, myself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heart), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 iron	det
9	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 take	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 thought	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 heart	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heart	nmod:poss
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 come	nsubj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 come	mark
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 attack	det
22	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 heart	acl:relcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 come	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 defend	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 defend	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 defend	aux
30	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	conj
31	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 defend	obj
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 defend	xcomp
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 iron	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 iron	det
35	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 defend	obl
36	than	than	ADP	_	39 pike	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pike	det
38	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pike	amod
39	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 iron	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	future	I	the iron			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument iron=Theme one=Destination
3	think speech: other	past	I		my heart		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come a condition, not said to happen	should	my heart			on me	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Location
5	defend	could	I	myself		with the iron than the wooden pike; good property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Beneficiary

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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