Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 181
"And now I was sure I would scald before I could get out of that.
Who acts: wisest · What happens: be, scald, get out · To what, where: that · 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 (wisest), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sure | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sure | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 scald | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 scald | aux |
| 9 | scald | scald | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 scald | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | wisest = wise | now | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scald in a quote | would | wisest = wise | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get out in a quote | could | wisest = wise | that | 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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