Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 121

I myself was telling him how he should heat the water, so that I should give its sight to the other eye.

Who acts: I, leech, water · What happens: tell, heat, give, sight · To what, where: leech, water, sight, other eye · 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 (I, leech, water), 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	4 telling	nsubj
2	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 I	obl:unmarked
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 telling	aux
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 telling	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heat	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heat	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 heat	aux
9	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 telling	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heat	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 give	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 telling	parataxis
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sight	nmod:poss
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 eye	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 eye	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eye	amod
23	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	I		leech	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	heat	should	leech	the water		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	give	should	I	water's sight	the other eye	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sight=Theme to eye=Recipient
4	sight		water			nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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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