Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 70

Well then,' said I myself, 'I have no reward whatsoever for you, unless you should go down and take that calf.'

Who acts: I, you · What happens: say, have, go down, take · To what, where: reward, calf · 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 (I, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 myself	nsubj
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 reward	det
13	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
14	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	11 have	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 have	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	21 go	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	conj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 take	cc
24	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 go	conj
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 calf	det
26	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	I	no reward			for you; whatsoever property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient
3	go down a condition, not said to happen	should	you				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	take	infinitive	you not said here		that calf			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument calf=Destination

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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