More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 116

"That ye should," says she; "thou 'st sore need o' them, my son: and if I should die, who'd take care o' a poor fool such 's thou, no more fit to look after thyself than an unborn baby? but mind thy manners, and speak her pretty, my lad; for they wise folk are gey and light mispleased."

Who acts: That, st sore, I · What happens: say, need, die, take, look, mind · To what, where: Woman, Brains, more fit, care, manners, folk gey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, st sore, I), 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	_	2 That	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 says	nsubj
3	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 should	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 That	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 That	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 That	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 thou	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 thou	punct
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 says	ccomp
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 thou	punct
13	st	st	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 sore	amod
14	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 need	nsubj
15	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
16	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 them	compound
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 o	punct
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 need	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 son	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 them	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 die	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 die	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 die	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 die	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 die	aux
27	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 take	nsubj
30	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 take	aux
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 die	conj
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
33	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	40 thou	mark
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 thou	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 such	det
36	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 such	amod
37	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 such	compound
38	such	such	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thou	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 such	case
40	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 take	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 fit	punct
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 fit	det
43	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 fit	amod
44	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 die	obl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 look	mark
46	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 die	advcl
47	after	after	ADP	_	48 thyself	case
48	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	46 look	obl
49	than	than	ADP	_	52 baby	case
50	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 baby	det
51	unborn	unborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 baby	amod
52	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 look	obl
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 die	punct
54	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 mind	cc
55	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 die	conj
56	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	57 manners	nmod:poss
57	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	55 mind	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 speak	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 speak	cc
60	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 die	conj
61	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 pretty	nmod:poss
62	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	60 speak	advmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 lad	punct
64	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 lad	nmod:poss
65	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 die	vocative
66	;	;	PUNCT	_	72 gey	punct
67	for	for	ADP	_	70 folk	case
68	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 folk	nsubj
69	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 folk	amod
70	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 gey	compound
71	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 gey	cop
72	gey	gey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	parataxis
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 light	cc
74	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 gey	conj
75	mispleased	mispleas	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	74 light	acl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	72 gey	punct
77	"	"	PUNCT	_	72 gey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	That	Woman			tree rules
2	need in a quote	present	st sore	Brains = brain			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
3	die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	I	no more fit		my lad vocative	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	take in a quote	would		care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	look in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here		after thyself	than a unborn baby	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	mind in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	thy manners			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Theme
7	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive	I not said here			pretty property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a in a quote	present		folk gey and light			tree rules
9	mispleas in a quote	participle		light not said here			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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