Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 111
I am in hopes you will handle your great sword to-day as you did yesterday.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, handle, do · To what, where: hopes, great sword
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hopes | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hopes | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 hopes | case |
| 4 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 handle | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 handle | aux |
| 7 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hopes | acl:relcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sword | nmod:poss |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sword | amod |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handle | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handle | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 did | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 handle | advcl |
| 17 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 did | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hopes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | hopes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | handle | future | you | your great sword | day | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | past | you | yesterday | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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