Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 22
There's thy sword for thee," said the smith, "and the fist must be good that plays this blade."
Who acts: sword, fist, that · What happens: be, say, play · To what, where: smith, blade · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sword, fist, that), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 thee | case |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 sword | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 's | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 smith | det |
| 11 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smith | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 smith | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 good | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fist | det |
| 16 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 good | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 good | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 good | cop |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 plays | nsubj |
| 21 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 good | advcl |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 blade | det |
| 23 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plays | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | thy sword for thee | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the smith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent smith=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | must | the fist | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | play | present | that | this blade | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=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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