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

"That's a fool, if ever was one, and a fool's luck in his face," said the wise woman to herself with a nod of her head, and threw a potato skin over her left shoulder to keep off ill-chance.

Who acts: That, wise woman · What happens: be, say, throw, keep off, nod · To what, where: fool, one, potato skin, left shoulder, ill chance, head · 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 (That, wise woman), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fool	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fool	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fool	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fool	det
5	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 one	mark
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 one	advmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 fool	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 luck	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 luck	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fool	det
14	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 luck	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 fool	case
16	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fool	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 luck	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fool	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fool	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
24	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 herself	case
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 woman	nmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 nod	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 nod	det
30	nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nod	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 threw	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 threw	cc
36	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	parataxis
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 skin	det
38	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 skin	compound
39	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 threw	obj
40	over	over	ADP	_	43 shoulder	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 shoulder	nmod:poss
42	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 shoulder	amod
43	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 threw	obl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 keep	mark
45	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 threw	advcl
46	off	off	ADP	_	45 keep	compound:prt
47	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 chance	amod
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 ill	punct
49	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 keep	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a fool and a fool's luck in lad's face				tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	That not said here	one		ever		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the wise woman to woman				with a nod of woman's head	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with nod=Manner
4	throw	past		a potato skin	woman's left shoulder			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent skin=Theme over shoulder=Destination
5	keep off	to-infinitive		ill chance				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme
6	nod			woman's head				nom nod «communication transitive»: of=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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