Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 20
If thou help not, he will be taken from thy king by woman's wiles and witchery."
Who acts: thou, wiles · What happens: not help, take · To what, where: Coran
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, wiles), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 help | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | advcl |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 help | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taken | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | aux:pass |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 king | nmod:poss |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 wiles | case |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wiles | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 16 | wiles | wile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taken | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 witchery | cc |
| 18 | witchery | witchery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wiles | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | future · passive | woman's wiles and witchery | Coran | from thy king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from king=Initial_Location |
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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