Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 39
If I'll be able to send you back to your father I'll do it, and I pray you make any use of me now that you may wish."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, send back, do, pray, make, wish · To what, where: you, farmer, use, me
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 able | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 make | csubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 send | mark |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 send | iobj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 send | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 father | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pray | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pray | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pray | nsubj |
| 20 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 pray | obj |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 use | det |
| 24 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 use | nmod |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 wish | advmod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 wish | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 wish | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 wish | aux |
| 31 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 make | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | future | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send back | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | to your father | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to father=Destination | |||
| 3 | do | future | I | farmer | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | imperative | you not said here | any use of me | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wish | may | you | now | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 7 | use | me | nom use «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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