Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 119
I am a good leech, and I will give you the sight of the other eye.'
Who acts: I · What happens: be, give, sight · To what, where: good leech, sight, you, other eye
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 leech | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 leech | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 leech | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leech | amod |
| 5 | leech | leech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 leech | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sight | det |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 eye | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eye | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eye | amod |
| 17 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sight | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leech | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 leech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a good leech | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | the sight of the other eye | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sight=Theme | |||
| 3 | sight | the other eye | nom sight «cognition 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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