Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 152

And I was as pleased then when I saw him drowning, as though you should grant my own life and the life of my two sons with me, and not lay any more trouble on me.

Who acts: I, depth, you · What happens: be, see, drown, grant, not lay · To what, where: depth, own life, trouble

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, depth, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 pleased	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 pleased	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 pleased	advmod
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 saw	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	drowning	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 saw	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grant	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 grant	mark
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 grant	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 grant	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 grant	aux
17	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 drowning	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 life	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 life	amod
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grant	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 life	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 life	det
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 life	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 sons	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sons	nmod:poss
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 sons	nummod
27	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 life	nmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sons	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lay	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lay	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 lay	advmod
33	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pleased	conj
34	any	any	ADV	_	35 more	advmod
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 trouble	advmod
36	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lay	obl
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 lay	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			pleased property	tree rules
2	see	past	I	depth	then		tree rules
3	drown	gerund	depth not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	grant	should	you	my own life and the life of my two sons with me			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme
5	not lay	infinitive	I not said here	trouble		on me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on i=Destination

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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