Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 59
Tell me any case in which you were as hard as this, and if you tell that, you shall get the soul of your youngest son."
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, be, get · To what, where: case, me, that, 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 case | det |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 hard | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 hard | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hard | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 hard | advmod |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 case | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 hard | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 tell | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 soul | det |
| 24 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 son | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 son | amod |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 soul | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | any case | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient case=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | you | any case | as this; hard property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | you | that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | get | shall | you | the soul of your youngest 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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