More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 61

Houts!" says the thing again, "thou needn't be feared o' me; thou 'st done me a better turn than thou know'st, my lad, and I'll do as much for thee."

Who acts: Houts, I · What happens: say, not fear, do · To what, where: thing, thou, me, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houts, I), 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	Houts	hout	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Houts	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Houts	punct
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feared	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 feared	punct
10	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 feared	nsubj:pass
11	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 feared	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 feared	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 feared	aux:pass
14	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 says	conj
15	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	17 me	case
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 me	punct
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 feared	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 done	nsubj:pass
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 thou	punct
21	st	st	ADV	_	22 done	advmod
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 says	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 done	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 turn	det
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 turn	amod
26	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	obj
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 know'st	case
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 know'st	nsubj
29	know'st	know'st	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lad	punct
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lad	nmod:poss
32	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 know'st	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 do	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 do	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 do	nsubj
36	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 do	aux
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 do	obj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 thee	case
41	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 much	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 do	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Houts	the thing		again		tree rules
2	not fear	present · passive		thou			of me	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	do	participle · passive		thou	me		than know'st and my lad	tree rules
4	do	future	I	much			for thee	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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