Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 8

"I have no prayers," says the giant; "but if you spare my life I'll give you that club; and as long as you keep from sin, you'll win every battle you ever fight with it."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: have, say, spare, give, keep, win · To what, where: prayers, giant, life, club, sin, battle · 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 (I, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 prayers	det
5	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 says	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 but	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 give	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 spare	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 spare	nsubj
16	spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 give	advcl
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod:poss
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spare	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
20	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 club	det
24	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	iobj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 long	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 long	cc
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 win	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 keep	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 keep	nsubj
31	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 win	advcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 sin	case
33	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 keep	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 keep	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 win	nsubj
36	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 win	aux
37	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	advcl
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	39 battle	det
39	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 win	obj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 fight	nsubj
41	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	42 fight	advmod
42	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 battle	acl:relcl
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 fight	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 win	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 win	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	I	no prayers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present		the giant					tree rules
3	spare a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	my life					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset
4	give in a quote	future	I		that club				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient club=Theme
5	keep in a quote	present	you			sin			vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from sin=Eventuality
6	win in a quote	future	you	every battle				long property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality
7	fight in a quote	present	you	every battle not said here			ever	with prayer	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent

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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