Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 31
"I would go," said Trembling, "if I could get the going."
Who acts: Trembling · What happens: go, say, get · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trembling), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Trembling | Trembling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 going | det |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 get | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | would | Trembling | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Trembling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | Trembling | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | gerund | Trembling not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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