Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 140

"'I will not take the ring from you,' said I, 'but throw it, and I will take it with me.'

Who acts: I · What happens: not take, say, throw, take · To what, where: ring · 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), 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 take	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 throw	cc
18	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 throw	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 take	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 take	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 take	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 take	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not take in a quote	future	I	the ring	from you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from you=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	ring		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	take in a quote	future	I	ring	with me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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