Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 16
But if you don't hear anything remarkable, do them no injury."
Who acts: you · What happens: not hear, do · To what, where: anything, twins
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hear | advmod |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 do | advcl |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 hear | obj |
| 8 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 anything | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 injury | det |
| 13 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | anything | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | imperative | you not said here | twins = twin | tree rules |
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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