Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 157

You have freed your two sons, but tell me a case in which you ever were that is harder than to be looking on your son being hanged tomorrow, and you shall get the soul of your eldest son."

Who acts: you · What happens: free, tell, be, look, get · To what, where: You, case, me, soul · 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 (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 freed	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 freed	aux
3	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sons	nmod:poss
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sons	nummod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 freed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freed	parataxis
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 case	det
12	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 harder	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 harder	nsubj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 harder	advmod
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 harder	cop
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 harder	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 harder	cop
20	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 tell	ccomp
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 looking	mark
22	to	to	PART	_	24 looking	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 looking	aux
24	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 harder	advcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 son	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looking	obl
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 hanged	cop
29	hanged	hanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tomorrow	amod
30	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looking	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 get	cc
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 get	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freed	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 soul	det
37	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 son	case
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 son	nmod:poss
40	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 son	amod
41	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 soul	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	free	present · perfect · passive		You				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive		a case	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient case=Topic
3	is	past				ever	hard property	tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive · progressive				tomorrow	on your son	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on son=Theme
5	is	gerund					hanged property	tree rules
6	get	shall	you	the soul of your eldest son				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soul=Stimulus

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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