Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 107

"I'd like to take a glimpse at the lad in the cradle," said he to Oonagh; "for I can tell you that the infant who can manage that nutriment is no joke to look at, or to feed of a scarce summer."

Who acts: Cucullin, infant, nutriment · What happens: like, take, say, tell, manage, be · To what, where: glimpse, lad, Oonagh, joke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cucullin, infant, nutriment), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 glimpse	det
8	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 lad	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lad	det
11	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cradle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cradle	det
14	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lad	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Oonagh	case
20	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 tell	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	parataxis
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 manage	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 infant	det
30	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 manage	nsubj
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 manage	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 manage	aux
33	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tell	ccomp
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 nutriment	det
35	nutriment	nutriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 joke	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 joke	cop
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 joke	det
38	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 manage	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 look	mark
40	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 joke	acl
41	at	at	ADP	_	40 look	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 feed	punct
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 feed	cc
44	to	to	PART	_	45 feed	mark
45	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tell	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 summer	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 summer	det
48	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 summer	amod
49	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 feed	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	like in a quote	would	Cucullin					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Cucullin not said here	a glimpse		the lad in the cradle		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme at lad=Asset
3	say speech: assert	past	Cucullin		Oonagh			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to oonagh=Recipient clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	Cucullin		Oonagh			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	manage in a quote	can	the infant					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	that nutriment	no joke				tree rules
7	look in a quote	to-infinitive	the infant not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	feed in a quote	to-infinitive	Cucullin not said here				summer	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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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