Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 139
Since thou wert so stalwart that thou hast got out, I will give thee a ring that I have here; keep the ring, and it will do thee good.'
Who acts: thou, I, ring · What happens: get out, give, have, keep, do · To what, where: stalwart, ring, thee
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 (thou, I, ring), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 3 wert | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 wert | nsubj |
| 3 | wert | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | advcl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 stalwart | advmod |
| 5 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wert | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 got | obl |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stalwart | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 got | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wert | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ring | det |
| 17 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 have | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ring | acl:relcl |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 have | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 keep | punct |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ring | det |
| 25 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keep | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 do | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | aux |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 keep | conj |
| 31 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 do | obj |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 do | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | present · perfect | thou | stalwart | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | a ring | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient ring=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | I | a ring | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | the ring | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | future | ring | thee | 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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