Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 75
But you're flesh and blood, and she can take a good grip of you, so that she won't fall off the horse.
Who acts: you, daughter · What happens: be, take, not fall off, grip · To what, where: flesh, good grip, horse, you
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 (you, daughter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 flesh | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 flesh | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flesh | cop |
| 4 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 blood | cc |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flesh | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flesh | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 grip | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grip | amod |
| 14 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 grip | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fall | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 fall | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 fall | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fall | nsubj |
| 21 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fall | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 fall | advmod |
| 23 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 fall | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 horse | det |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fall | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flesh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | flesh and blood | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | can | daughter | a good grip of you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grip=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not fall off | future | daughter | the horse | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient horse=Extent | ||||
| 4 | grip | you | nom grip «act 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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