Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 80
Now would you open the gate for a body, and I'll give you no more trouble."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: open, give · To what, where: gate, more trouble, 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, I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 open | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 open | nsubj |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 body | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 open | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 trouble | amod |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | would | you | the gate | now | for a body | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||
| 2 | give | future | I | more trouble | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient trouble=Theme |
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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