Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 78

"I thought so," she replied; "I judged as much; and if you take my advice, you poor-looking creature, you'll pray night and day that you may never see him, for I tell you it will be a black day for you when you do.

Who acts: M'Coul, you, creature · What happens: think, reply, judge, take, look, pray · To what, where: much, advice, creature, night, you, black day · 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 (M'Coul, you, creature), 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	_	3 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 thought	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 replied	nsubj
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 judged	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 judged	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 judged	nsubj
12	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	advcl
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 judged	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 looking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 looking	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 take	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
19	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 looking	advcl
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 advice	nmod:poss
21	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 looking	nsubj
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 looking	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 poor	punct
26	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thought	advcl
27	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looking	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pray	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 pray	nsubj
30	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 pray	aux
31	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 looking	conj
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pray	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 day	cc
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 night	conj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 see	obj
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 see	nsubj
37	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 see	aux
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 see	advmod
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 night	acl:relcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 see	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 tell	punct
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 tell	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 tell	nsubj
44	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pray	conj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 tell	iobj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 day	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 day	aux
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 day	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 day	det
50	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 day	amod
51	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tell	ccomp
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 you	case
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 day	nmod
54	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	56 do	advmod
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 do	nsubj
56	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 tell	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past	M'Coul					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	M'Coul					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	judge in a quote	past	M'Coul	much				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent much=Value
4	take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	my advice				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
5	look in a quote	gerund	you	creature				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme creature=Attribute
6	pray in a quote	future	you			night		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	not see in a quote	may	you	night and day				tree rules
8	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	M'Coul		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
9	is a in a quote	future	creature	a black day			for you	tree rules
10	do in a quote	present	you					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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