Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 36

"Oh!" says the king, "if that's the way, let one of 'em turn out and try his mettle."

Who acts: king, that, one · What happens: say, be, let, turn out, try · To what, where: way, mettle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, that, one), 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	_	5 says	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 way	mark
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 way	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 way	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 turn	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 'em	case
19	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 one	nmod
20	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 let	xcomp
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 turn	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 try	cc
23	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 turn	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mettle	nmod:poss
25	mettle	mettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 try	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	that	the way	tree rules
3	let in a quote	infinitive			tree rules
4	turn out in a quote	present	one of 'em		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	try in a quote	infinitive	one of 'em not said here	King's mettle	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mettle=Eventuality

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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