More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 45

Stop for me while I go; it is a cold frost night," said William, "you'd be catching your death."

Who acts: you, I, money, William, your · What happens: stop, go, be, say, catch, die · To what, where: cold frost night, death · 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 (you, I, money, William), 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	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Stop	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 go	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	advcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 night	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 night	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 night	det
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
12	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 night	compound
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	parataxis
17	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 catching	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 catching	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 catching	nsubj
21	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 catching	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 catching	aux
23	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	advcl
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 death	nmod:poss
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 catching	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		for me	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	go	present	I			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	money	a cold frost night		tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	William			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	catch	would · progressive	you	your death		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
6	die		your			nom death «event intransitive»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/45/