Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 109

"Up with you then," said the juggler; "but I warn you if you let my hare be killed I'll cut off your head when you come down."

Who acts: juggler, you · What happens: say, warn, let, kill, cut off, come down · To what, where: you, hare, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (juggler, 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Up	up	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Up	obl
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 then	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 juggler	det
10	juggler	juggler	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 warn	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 warn	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 warn	nsubj
15	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 warn	obj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 let	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 let	nsubj
19	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 killed	advcl
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hare	nmod:poss
21	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 let	obj
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 killed	aux:pass
23	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 warn	ccomp
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 cut	nsubj
25	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 cut	aux
26	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 killed	parataxis
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 cut	compound:prt
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obj
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 come	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
32	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 cut	advcl
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 warn	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 warn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the juggler			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	warn speech: warn in a quote	present	the juggler = juggler		you			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	my hare				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme
4	kill in a quote	infinitive · passive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	cut off in a quote	future	the juggler = juggler	your head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
6	come down in a quote	present	you				down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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