Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 105

You have freed the soul of your son with your tale; and if you tell me a harder case than that you will get your second youngest son, and then you will have two sons."

Who acts: you, your · What happens: free, tell, get, have · To what, where: You, harder case, me, second youngest son, two sons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 freed	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 freed	aux
3	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soul	det
5	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 son	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soul	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 tale	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tale	nmod:poss
11	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 freed	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 case	det
19	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 case	amod
20	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 get	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 get	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 get	aux
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	advcl
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 son	nmod:poss
27	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 son	amod
28	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 son	amod
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 have	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 have	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 have	aux
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freed	parataxis
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 sons	nummod
37	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 have	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 freed	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 freed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	free	present · perfect · passive		You			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a harder case	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient case=Topic
3	get	future	you	your second youngest son			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
4	have	future	you	two sons		then	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
5	tell		your				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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