Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 123

I began at the eye that was well, pretending to him that I would give its sight to the other one, till I left them as bad as each other; and surely it was easier to spoil the one that was well than to give sight to the other.

Who acts: I, eye, caldron · What happens: begin, be, pretend, give, leave, spoil · To what, where: eye, leech, sight, other one, eyes, one

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, eye, caldron), 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	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 eye	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eye	det
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 well	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 well	cop
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 eye	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pretending	punct
10	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 began	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pretending	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 give	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pretending	xcomp
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sight	nmod:poss
18	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 one	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 one	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	amod
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 left	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 left	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 left	nsubj
26	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 left	obj
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 bad	advmod
29	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 left	xcomp
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 each	case
31	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	29 bad	obl
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 each	fixed
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 easier	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 easier	cc
35	surely	surely	ADV	_	38 easier	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 easier	expl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 easier	cop
38	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 began	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 spoil	mark
40	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 easier	xcomp
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 one	det
42	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spoil	obj
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 give	obj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 give	cop
45	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 give	advmod
46	than	than	SCONJ	_	48 give	mark
47	to	to	PART	_	48 give	mark
48	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 one	acl:relcl
49	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 give	obj
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 other	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 other	det
52	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 give	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	I			the eye		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	the eye				well property	tree rules
3	pretend	gerund	I not said here		leech			tree rules
4	give	would	I	caldron's sight	the other one			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sight=Theme to one=Recipient
5	leave	past	I	eyes = eye			bad property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	is	past					easy, surely property	tree rules
7	spoil	to-infinitive		the one				tree rules
8	is	past		the one not said here			to the other; give, well property	tree rules
9	sight		caldron					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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