Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 18
You may come and gather sticks here till little Lunacy Day in Harvest, without giant or fairy-man to disturb you."
Who acts: You · What happens: come, gather, disturb · To what, where: sticks, 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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gather | cc |
| 5 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 6 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gather | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gather | advmod |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 Day | case |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Day | amod |
| 10 | Lunacy | Lunacy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Day | compound |
| 11 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gather | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Harvest | case |
| 13 | Harvest | Harvest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Day | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 fairy | cc |
| 18 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 giant | conj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 fairy | punct |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 disturb | mark |
| 22 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 man | acl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 disturb | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | may | You | without giant man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gather | infinitive | You not said here | sticks | here | till little Lunacy Day in Harvest | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||
| 3 | disturb | to-infinitive | You not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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