Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 236

"You shambling, contemptible old carle, without grace, I have stayed too long your water and wood thrall."

Who acts: You, shoemaker · What happens: shamble, stay · To what, where: long water

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, shoemaker), 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	_	3 shambling	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 shambling	nsubj
3	shambling	shamble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 carle	punct
5	contemptible	contemptible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carle	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carle	amod
7	carle	carle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shambling	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grace	punct
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 grace	case
10	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shambling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 stayed	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 stayed	aux
14	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 shambling	parataxis
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 water	amod
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 water	nmod:poss
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stayed	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thrall	cc
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thrall	compound
21	thrall	thrall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 water	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 shambling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shamble in a quote	gerund	You					without grace	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay in a quote	present · perfect	the shoemaker = shoemaker	your long water and wood thrall					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme water=Location

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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