Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 16

He had neither prayers nor catechism no more nor the others; and so he gave Tom a bottle of green ointment, that wouldn't let you be burned, nor scalded, nor wounded. "

Who acts: giant, that, you · What happens: have, give, not let, burn, scald · To what, where: prayers, bottle, Tom, you

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, that, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	4 prayers	det
4	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 catechism	cc
6	catechism	catechism	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prayers	conj
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 catechism	advmod
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 others	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 others	det
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prayers	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 gave	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
17	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 gave	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bottle	det
19	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 ointment	case
21	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ointment	amod
22	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bottle	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 let	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 let	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 let	advmod
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gave	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 burned	aux:pass
30	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 let	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 scalded	punct
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 scalded	cc
33	scalded	scald	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wounded	punct
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 wounded	cc
36	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 scalded	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	past	giant	neither prayers nor catechism nor the others		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient
2	give	past	giant	a bottle of green ointment	Tom	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient bottle=Theme
3	not let	would	that	you		tree rules
4	burn	infinitive · passive	you not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»
5	scald	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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