Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 74

I only came for the loan of that flail that I see hanging on the collar-beam, for the king of Dublin to give a thrashing to the Danes."

Who acts: I, flail · What happens: come, see, hang, give, loan · To what, where: flail, collar beam, thrashing, Danes

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 (I, flail), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 loan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loan	det
6	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 flail	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 flail	det
9	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loan	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 see	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 flail	acl:relcl
13	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 see	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 beam	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beam	det
16	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beam	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 collar	punct
18	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hanging	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 king	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 king	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hanging	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Dublin	case
24	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 king	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 king	acl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 thrashing	det
28	thrashing	thrashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 Danes	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Danes	det
31	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 thrashing	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	I				for the loan of that flail	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present	I	that flail				tree rules
3	hang	gerund	that flail not said here			the collar beam	for the king of Dublin	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on beam=Location
4	give	to-infinitive	that flail not said here	a thrashing	the Danes			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thrashing=Theme to dane=Recipient
5	loan			that flail				nom loan «possession transitive»: of=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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