Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 106

"Well then," said Conall, "on condition that thou dost that, I will tell thee how I was once in a harder case than to be in thy power in prison to-night."

Who acts: Conall, thou · What happens: say, do, tell, be · To what, where: condition, thee, harder case, prison · 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 (Conall, thou), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 condition	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 condition	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 condition	case
11	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Conall	appos
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 dost	obj
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 dost	nsubj
14	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 condition	acl:relcl
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 dost	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 tell	iobj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 once	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 once	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 once	cop
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 tell	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 case	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 case	det
27	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 case	amod
28	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obl
29	than	than	ADP	_	34 power	case
30	to	to	PART	_	34 power	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 power	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 power	case
33	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 power	nmod:poss
34	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 prison	case
36	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 power	nmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 night	case
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 to	punct
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Conall				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do in a quote	present	thou	condition					tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Conall		thee	a harder case	night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
4	is in a quote	past	Conall					once property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	to-infinitive				prison		than thy power	tree rules

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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