Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 43
If thou wilt, we can seek it and live there alone together in joy."
Who acts: we · What happens: seek, live · To what, where: land, joy
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 (we), 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 wilt | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 wilt | nsubj |
| 3 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 7 seek | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wilt | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 seek | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 seek | aux |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seek | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 live | cc |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seek | conj |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 live | advmod |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 live | advmod |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 live | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 joy | case |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seek | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | can | we | land | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | we not said here | joy; there | alone, together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=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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