More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 77

Nay, nay," said Tom, "my mother did not teach me such wit; who'd be a fool then?"

Who acts: Tom, mother · What happens: say, not teach, be · To what, where: such wit, me, fool · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, mother), 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	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	3 nay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nay	punct
3	nay	nay	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nay	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 nay	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 teach	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 teach	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teach	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 teach	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 teach	advmod
14	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 teach	obj
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wit	amod
17	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teach	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 'd	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 'd	nsubj
20	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fool	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 fool	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fool	det
23	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teach	vocative
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 teach	advmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 teach	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Tom				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not teach speech: other	past · do-support	my mother	such wit	me	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wit=Topic
3	is a	past		a fool			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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