Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 59
"Faith, an' if you did, I wish you had said so.
Who acts: you, bosthoon · What happens: do, wish, say · To what, where: Faith · 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, bosthoon), 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 | _ | 2 Faith | punct |
| 2 | Faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wish | det |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 did | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wish | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Faith | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 wish | ccomp |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Faith | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | bosthoon | Faith not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · perfect | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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