Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 71
"I'll take the wooden one," said the cowboy; "and you may keep the iron one for yourself."
Who acts: cowboy, you · What happens: take, say, keep · To what, where: wooden one, iron one · 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 (cowboy, 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 | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cowboy | det |
| 12 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 keep | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 keep | aux |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 yourself | case |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 keep | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | the cowboy = cowboy | the wooden one | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent one=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cowboy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | may | you | the iron one | for yourself | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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