Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 20

"This is what I am thinking," said Conall, "since you are working every day for the king, you and your gillies could put myself and my sons into five sacks of bran."

Who acts: This, Conall, you · What happens: be, think, say, work, put · To what, where: Conall, five sacks · 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 (This, Conall, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 what	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 said	nsubj:outer
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 thinking	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thinking	aux
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 working	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 working	punct
14	since	since	SCONJ	_	17 working	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 working	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 working	aux
17	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	parataxis
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 working	obl:unmarked
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 king	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 working	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 put	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gillies	cc
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 gillies	nmod:poss
27	gillies	gillie	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 you	conj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 put	aux
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 working	advcl
30	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 put	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sons	cc
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sons	nmod:poss
33	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 myself	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 sacks	case
35	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 sacks	nummod
36	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 put	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 bran	case
38	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sacks	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 working	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This					tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	Conall					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Conall					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	work in a quote	present · progressive	you			day	for the king	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for king=Beneficiary
5	put in a quote	could	you	Conall	five sacks of bran			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myself=Goal

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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