Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 33

Said the falcon, "If hardship comes on thee, where swiftness of wing or crook of a claw will do good, mind me, and I will be at thy side."

Who acts: falcon, hardship, swiftness · What happens: say, come, do, mind, be · To what, where: thee, good, falcon, 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 (falcon, hardship, swiftness), 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 falcon	det
3	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 comes	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 comes	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 comes	mark
7	hardship	hardship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 thee	case
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 comes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 do	advmod
13	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 wing	case
15	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swiftness	nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 crook	cc
17	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swiftness	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 claw	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 claw	det
20	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crook	nmod
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 comes	parataxis
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 do	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mind	punct
25	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 do	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 mind	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 side	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 side	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 side	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 side	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 side	cop
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 side	case
33	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 side	nmod:poss
34	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 side	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 side	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the falcon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	hardship		thee	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thou=Location
3	do in a quote	future	swiftness of wing or crook of a claw	good		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
4	mind in a quote	infinitive	swiftness of wing or crook of a claw not said here	the falcon = falcon		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	is in a quote	future	the falcon = falcon		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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