More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 4
"I don't want thy help, I tell thee," Tom yelled at him--"I only want never to see thee again, and to have nought more to do with 'ee--thou can go."
Who acts: Tom, thou, thy · What happens: not want, tell, yell, want, not see, have · To what, where: help, thee, nought · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, thou, thy), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 help | nmod:poss |
| 7 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | parataxis |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yelled | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 yelled | punct |
| 14 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 yelled | nsubj |
| 15 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 yelled | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 want | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 want | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 want | nsubj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 want | advmod |
| 22 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 yelled | advcl |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 see | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 want | xcomp |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 see | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 have | cc |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 have | mark |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tell | parataxis |
| 32 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 31 have | obj |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 have | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 do | mark |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 more | acl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 ee | case |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 ee | punct |
| 38 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 do | obl |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 go | punct |
| 40 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 go | nsubj |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 go | aux |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 have | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | Tom | thy help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Tom | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | yell speech: express | past | Tom | at st | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | Tom | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | thee | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | nought | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | with ee | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | go in a quote | can | thou | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | help in a quote | thy | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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