More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 63

"No!" says he as quick as quick, "I am no bogle, but ye 'd best not ask me what I be; anyways I be a good friend o' thine."

Who acts: I, ye · What happens: say, be, not ask · To what, where: bogle, me · 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 (I, ye), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 says	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 quick	nsubj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 quick	advmod
8	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 quick	case
10	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 quick	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bogle	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 bogle	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 bogle	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bogle	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 bogle	det
16	bogle	bogle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quick	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ask	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 ask	cc
19	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 ask	nsubj
20	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 ask	aux
21	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 'd	advmod
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 ask	advmod
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 ask	iobj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 be	obj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 be	nsubj
27	be	be	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 ask	ccomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 friend	punct
29	anyways	anyways	INTJ	_	34 friend	discourse
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 friend	nsubj
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 friend	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 friend	det
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 friend	amod
34	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ask	conj
35	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	36 '	case
36	'	's	PART	_	34 friend	case
37	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 friend	appos
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	I	no bogle			tree rules
3	not ask speech: ask in a quote	would	ye		me		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be in a quote	infinitive	I				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	is in a quote	infinitive	I			's a good friend	tree rules

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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