Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 31

For this," said the dog, "if swiftness of foot or sharpness of tooth will give thee aid, mind me, and I will be at thy side."

Who acts: swiftness, I · What happens: say, give, mind, be · To what, where: dog, aid, thee, me, side · 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 (swiftness, I), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 said	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 give	mark
11	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 foot	case
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swiftness	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 sharpness	cc
15	sharpness	sharpness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swiftness	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 tooth	case
17	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sharpness	nmod
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 give	iobj
21	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mind	punct
23	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 give	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 mind	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 side	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 side	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 side	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 side	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 side	cop
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 side	case
31	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 side	nmod:poss
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 side	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 side	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the dog			for this	tree rules
2	give a condition, not said to happen	future	swiftness of foot or sharpness of tooth	aid	thee			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient aid=Theme
3	mind	infinitive	swiftness of foot or sharpness of tooth not said here	me				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	is	future	I			thy side		tree rules

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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