Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 106

I am sharpening the knife, and I'll have the feet off every sheep in the flock while you'd be blessing yourself."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: sharpen, have, bless · To what, where: knife, feet, yourself

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sharpening	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sharpening	aux
3	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knife	det
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sharpening	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 have	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sharpening	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feet	det
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	15 sheep	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sheep	det
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 flock	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flock	det
18	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sheep	nmod
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 blessing	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 blessing	nsubj
21	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 blessing	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 blessing	aux
23	blessing	bless	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 have	advcl
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 blessing	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sharpening	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sharpening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sharpen	present · progressive	I	the knife		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
2	have	future	I	the feet	off every sheep in the flock	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
3	bless	would · progressive	you	yourself		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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