Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 15

If you hear them speaking of things beyond the understanding of children, go back and take them up and throw them into the waters of Lake Elvyn.

Who acts: you, twins · What happens: hear, speak, go back, take up, throw, understand · To what, where: twins, waters, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, twins), 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	_	3 hear	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 go	advcl
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	obj
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hear	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 things	case
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 speaking	obl
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	10 understanding	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 understanding	det
10	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speaking	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 children	case
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 understanding	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 take	cc
17	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 take	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 throw	cc
21	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 take	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 throw	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 waters	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 waters	det
25	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 throw	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Lake	case
27	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 waters	nmod
28	Elvyn	Elvyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Lake	flat
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear a condition, not said to happen	present	you	twins = twin		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	gerund	twins = twin not said here		of things; beyond the understanding of children	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go back	imperative	you not said here			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	take up	infinitive	you not said here	twins = twin		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	throw	infinitive	you not said here	twins = twin	into the waters of Lake result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into water=Result
6	understand			children		nom understanding «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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