Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 67
"I," said the cowboy; "and if your pet had had manners, he might be alive now."
Who acts: I, pet · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: cowboy, manners · 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, pet), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cowboy | det |
| 7 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 alive | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | aux |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 alive | advcl |
| 16 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 alive | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 alive | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 alive | cop |
| 21 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 alive | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 alive | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | the cowboy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cowboy=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | your pet | manners | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | might | pet | now | alive 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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