Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 118

If you're there before, you may throw a sheep's eye at me, and I'll be sure to see that they'll give you something for yourself."

Who acts: you, I, divel · What happens: be, throw, see, give · To what, where: eye, something, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, I, divel), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 there	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 there	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 throw	advcl
5	before	before	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 throw	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 throw	aux
9	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sheep	det
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eye	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 sheep	case
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throw	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 throw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sure	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sure	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sure	nsubj
19	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sure	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sure	cop
21	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 throw	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sure	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 give	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 give	nsubj
26	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 see	ccomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 give	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 yourself	case
31	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 something	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 throw	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			before, there property	tree rules
2	throw	may	you	a sheep's eye		at me	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme at i=Destination
3	is	future	I			sure property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	give	future	divel	something	you	for yourself	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme for yourself=Asset

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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