Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 85
Now, if you try to find it, troth I'd feel it a kindness."
Who acts: you, troth · What happens: try, find, feel · To what, where: weather
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, troth), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 try | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 try | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 try | nsubj |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feel | punct |
| 10 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 12 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 feel | aux |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kindness | det |
| 16 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feel | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | you | now | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | weather | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | feel | would | troth | weather | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme kindness=Eventuality |
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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