Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 32

Said the otter, "If the swimming of foot on the ground of a pool will loose thee, mind me, and I will be at thy side."

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the otter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	the swimming of foot on the ground of a pool	thee		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality
3	mind in a quote	infinitive	the swimming of foot on the ground of a pool not said here	the otter = otter		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	is in a quote	future	the otter = otter		thy side	tree rules
5	swim in a quote			foot	the ground of a pool	nom swimming «act transitive»: of=patient on=place

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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