Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 118

Bedad, you had better be off out of this before he comes back; for if he catches you, it's in flummery he'd have you in two minutes."

Who acts: Bedad, stone · What happens: have, come back, catch, be · To what, where: you, flummery

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 (Bedad, stone), 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	Bedad	bedad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bedad	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 had	xcomp
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 off	cop
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 better	compound:prt
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 this	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 this	case
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 better	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 comes	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 comes	nsubj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 comes	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 catches	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 catches	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 catches	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 catches	nsubj
19	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 catches	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flummery	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flummery	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 flummery	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 flummery	case
25	flummery	flummery	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 catches	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 flummery	acl:relcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 have	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 minutes	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 minutes	nummod
32	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 catches	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 catches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Bedad				good property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come back	present	Bedad					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch a condition, not said to happen	present	Bedad	you				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	is	present	stone		flummery			tree rules
5	have	would	Bedad	you		minute		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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