Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 26

It is hard to get out of this; let us make for ourselves five hiding holes, so that if they hear us we may go and hide."

Who acts: us, holes, we · What happens: be, get out, let, make, hide, hear · To what, where: this, us, five hiding holes

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 (us, holes, we), 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	3 hard	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hard	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 this	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 get	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	parataxis
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ourselves	case
14	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 make	obl
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 holes	nummod
16	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 holes	amod
17	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 go	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 go	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 hear	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hear	nsubj
23	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 go	advcl
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hear	obj
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hide	cc
29	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hard	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			hard property	tree rules
2	get out	to-infinitive		this		tree rules
3	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
4	make	infinitive	us not said here	five hiding holes	for ourselves	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent hole=Product for ourselves=Asset
5	hide	gerund				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hear a condition, not said to happen	present	holes = hole	us		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
7	go	may	we			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hide	infinitive	we not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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