More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 108

"It's dark still, childer, dark!" says she, "and I can't rightly see, but do as I tell ye, and ye 'll find out for yourselves.

Who acts: Moon, childer, ye · What happens: be, say, not see, do, tell, find out · To what, where: Woman, ye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, childer, ye), 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	_	4 dark	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dark	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 says	advcl
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 childer	punct
7	childer	childer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dark	punct
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 childer	amod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 dark	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dark	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 she	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 she	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
18	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 see	advmod
20	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	21 see	advmod
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 do	cc
24	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 says	parataxis
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 tell	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
27	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 do	acl:relcl
28	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 tell	iobj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 find	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 find	cc
31	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 find	nsubj
32	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 find	aux
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 do	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 find	compound:prt
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 yourselves	case
36	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 find	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Moon			still	dark property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	present	childer	Woman				tree rules
3	not see in a quote	can	childer				rightly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	do in a quote	present						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	childer		ye			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient
6	find out in a quote	future	ye				for yourselves	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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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