Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 83

You see, after this long stretch of dry weather we've had, we feel very badly off for want of water.

Who acts: You, we · What happens: see, have, feel, want · To what, where: dry weather, water

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, we), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stretch	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 stretch	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 stretch	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stretch	amod
7	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 weather	case
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weather	amod
10	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stretch	nmod
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
12	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 weather	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feel	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 feel	nsubj
16	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 badly	advmod
18	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 off	advmod
19	off	off	ADV	_	16 feel	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 want	case
21	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feel	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 want	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You		after this long stretch of dry weather		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	present · perfect	we	dry weather not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient
3	feel	present	we			for want of water; off property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for want=Theme
4	want			water			nom want «state transitive»: of=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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