Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 50
Talking of pancakes, maybe, we'll give him as good as any he brings with him--thunderbolt or otherwise.
Who acts: we, any · What happens: talk, give, bring · To what, where: thunderbolt, Oonagh
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 (we, any), 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 | Talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 give | csubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 pancakes | case |
| 3 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Talking | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 maybe | punct |
| 5 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 1 Talking | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talking | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 give | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 brings | mark |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 brings | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brings | nsubj |
| 16 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 good | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brings | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 thunderbolt | punct |
| 20 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 otherwise | cc |
| 22 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 20 thunderbolt | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | of pancakes; maybe property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | future | we | thunderbolt | Oonagh | good property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 3 | bring | present | any | with Oonagh | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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