Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 175
It is that he must be cooked for the giant who is here, or else no more of my world will be before me.'
What happens: be, not be · To what, where: knife
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooked | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 cooked | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooked | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cooked | aux:pass |
| 7 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 giant | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 here | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 here | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 here | cop |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 cooked | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 me | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 me | cc |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 25 me | advmod |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 me | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 me | amod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 world | nmod:poss |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 more | obl |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 me | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 me | cop |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cooked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooked | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must · present · passive | knife | cook property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | for the giant; here property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is | future | before me | else property | 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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