Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 144

"May your hand turn into a pig's foot with you when you think of tying the rope; why should you speak of hanging me?"

Who acts: hand, you · What happens: turn, think, tie, speak, hang · To what, where: foot, rope, captain · 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 (hand, 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	_	5 turn	punct
2	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	10 foot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pig	det
8	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foot	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 pig	case
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 foot	nmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 think	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 think	nsubj
15	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	parataxis
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 tying	mark
17	tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 think	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rope	det
19	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tying	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 speak	punct
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 speak	advmod
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 speak	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 speak	nsubj
24	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turn	conj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 hanging	mark
26	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 speak	advcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 hanging	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	turn in a quote	may	your hand		a pig's foot with you	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into foot=Trajectory
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tie in a quote	gerund	you not said here	the rope		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
4	speak speech: other in a quote	should	you			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hang in a quote	gerund	you not said here	the captain of the guard = captain		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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