Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 74

Certainly I had no liking at all for the cronan, but up came the one cat and ten, and if they did not sing me a cronan then and there! '

Who acts: I, children · What happens: have, come, not sing · To what, where: liking, all, one cat, cronan, me

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, children), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 liking	det
5	liking	liking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 liking	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 cronan	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cronan	det
10	cronan	cronan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
13	up	up	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cat	det
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 cat	nummod
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ten	cc
19	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 cat	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sing	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 sing	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sing	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sing	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 sing	advmod
26	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	parataxis
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sing	iobj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cronan	det
29	cronan	cronan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sing	obj
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sing	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 there	cc
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 then	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 sing	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	no liking		all		certainly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liking=Patient
2	come	past	I not said here	the one cat					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme
3	not sing speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	children = child	a cronan	me		then		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary cronan=Theme

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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