More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 7
True's true I'll never help thee again, and call as thou wilt, thou 'lt never see me after to-day; but I never said that I'd leave thee alone, Tom, and I never will, my lad!
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: not help, call, not see, not say, leave · To what, where: thee, me · 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 (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 | True | True | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 true | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 True | case |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 help | advcl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 help | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 help | advmod |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 help | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 call | cc |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 wilt | advmod |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 wilt | nsubj |
| 15 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 call | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 see | nsubj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 19 | lt | lt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 call | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 to | punct |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 said | nsubj |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 said | advmod |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | parataxis |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 leave | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 leave | nsubj |
| 34 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 leave | aux |
| 35 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 said | ccomp |
| 36 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 leave | obj |
| 37 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 35 leave | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Tom | punct |
| 39 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 leave | vocative |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 will | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 will | cc |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 will | nsubj |
| 43 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 44 will | advmod |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | advcl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 lad | punct |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 lad | nmod:poss |
| 47 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | vocative |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | future | I | thee | again | my lad vocative | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | call | infinitive | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not see | infinitive | thou | me | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | leave | would | I | thee | Tom vocative; alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
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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