Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 31
And he carried as fine a blackthorn as you'd wish to crack a man's head with.
Who acts: man, you · What happens: carry, wish, crack · To what, where: blackthorn, head
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 carried | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fine | advmod |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carried | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blackthorn | det |
| 7 | blackthorn | blackthorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 wish | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 10 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wish | aux |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 carried | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 crack | mark |
| 13 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wish | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 man | case |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crack | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 crack | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | man | a blackthorn | fine property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackthorn=Theme | |||
| 2 | wish | would | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | crack not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a man's head | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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