Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 115
Give me the stone here, and when I'll show what Fin's little son can do, you may then judge of what my daddy himself is."
Who acts: you, I, little son, daddy · What happens: give, show, do, judge, be · To what, where: stone, me · 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 (you, I, little son, daddy), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Give | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 show | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 show | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 show | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 show | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | aux |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | advcl |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 do | obj |
| 13 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Fin | case |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 son | amod |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 show | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 judge | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 judge | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 judge | aux |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 judge | advmod |
| 23 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 judge | obj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daddy | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 what | nsubj |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 what | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | cop |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | the stone | me | here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient stone=Theme | ||
| 2 | show | future | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | can | Fin's little son | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | judge | may | you | then | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | my daddy | 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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