More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 78

"Stop," says he, quick as lightning, "I'll help thee and welcome, but if ever thou sayest that to me--if ever thou thankest me, see'st thou, thou 'lt never see me more.

Who acts: I, thou · What happens: stop, say, help, thank, not see · To what, where: thee, that, me, see'st · 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, thou), 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	_	2 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 quick	punct
8	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 lightning	case
10	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quick	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 help	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 help	aux
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 help	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 welcome	cc
18	welcome	welcome	INTJ	_	15 help	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sayest	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 sayest	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 ever	mark
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 sayest	advmod
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 sayest	nsubj
24	sayest	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	parataxis
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 sayest	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sayest	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 thankest	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 ever	mark
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 thankest	advmod
31	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 thankest	nsubj
32	thankest	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sayest	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 thankest	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see'st	punct
35	see'st	see'st	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thankest	obj
36	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	42 see	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 thou	punct
38	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 thou	conj
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
40	lt	lt	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 see	nsubj
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 see	advmod
42	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 see'st	acl:relcl
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 see	obj
44	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 see	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help in a quote	future	I	thee			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	thou	that	me	ever	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to i=Recipient
5	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	thou	see'st	me	ever	tree rules
6	not see in a quote	infinitive	thou	me			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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