More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 111

I must tell my mother she was right after all, and that she'll never have a wise man for a son!"

Who acts: I, Mother · What happens: tell, be, not have · To what, where: mother, wise man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 right	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADV	_	5 mother	acl:relcl
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 right	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 have	advmod
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 son	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 son	det
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	nmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	I		my mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
2	is	past	Mother	my mother not said here		after all	right property	tree rules
3	not have	future	Mother	a wise man			for a son	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

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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