Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 7
"If you have e'er a prayer," says Tom, "now's the time to say it, before I make fragments of you."
Who acts: you, Tom · What happens: have, say, be, make · To what, where: e'er, time, prayer, fragments · 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 (you, Tom), 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 | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | ccomp |
| 5 | e'er | e'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 prayer | det |
| 7 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 time | advmod |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 say | mark |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 time | acl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 say | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | ccomp |
| 25 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 fragments | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | e'er | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the time | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | prayer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present | Tom | fragments of you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Product |
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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