More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 30

But then I be a fool, that's true."

Who acts: I, that · What happens: be · To what, where: fool

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, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 fool	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fool	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fool	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fool	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fool	det
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 true	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fool	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive	I	a fool			then		tree rules
2	is	present	that					true property	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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