Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 122

"It's well for you," said Oonagh, "that he doesn't happen to be here, for it's nothing but hawk's meat he'd make of you."

Who acts: departure, Oonagh · What happens: be, say, not happen, make · 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 (departure, Oonagh), 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	_	6 you	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 you	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 you	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 you	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 happen	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 happen	nsubj
15	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 happen	advmod
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	20 here	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 here	cop
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 happen	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 nothing	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 nothing	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 nothing	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 nothing	cop
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 happen	parataxis
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 meat	cc
27	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meat	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 hawk	case
29	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nothing	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 make	nsubj
31	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 make	aux
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nothing	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 make	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	departure	for you; well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Oonagh		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not happen in a quote	present · do-support	Oonagh		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	Oonagh not said here	here property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	departure	for nothing	tree rules
6	make in a quote	would	Oonagh	of you	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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