More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 45
These speeches then their brother spake To this sick couple there: "The keeping of your little ones, Sweet sister, do not fear; God never prosper me nor mine, Nor aught else that I have, If I do wrong your children dear When you are laid in grave!"
Who acts: God, brother · What happens: keep, not fear, not prosper, have, wrong, lay · To what, where: brother, children, you, grave
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 (God, brother), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 speeches | det |
| 2 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spake | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 spake | advmod |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spake | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spake | compound |
| 6 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | To | to | ADP | _ | 10 couple | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 couple | det |
| 9 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 couple | amod |
| 10 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spake | nmod |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 couple | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeping | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeping | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 keeping | det |
| 15 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 spake | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ones | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ones | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ones | amod |
| 19 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keeping | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sister | punct |
| 21 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sister | amod |
| 22 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ones | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fear | punct |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 fear | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 fear | advmod |
| 26 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 keeping | parataxis |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 prosper | punct |
| 28 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 prosper | nsubj |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 prosper | advmod |
| 30 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fear | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 prosper | obj |
| 32 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 33 mine | cc |
| 33 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 prosper | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 aught | punct |
| 35 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 aught | compound |
| 36 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 15 keeping | parataxis |
| 37 | else | else | ADV | _ | 36 aught | advmod |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 have | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 have | nsubj |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 aught | advcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 wrong | punct |
| 42 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 wrong | mark |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 wrong | nsubj |
| 44 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 wrong | aux |
| 45 | wrong | wrong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 keeping | conj |
| 46 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 children | nmod:poss |
| 47 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 wrong | obj |
| 48 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 wrong | xcomp |
| 49 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 52 laid | mark |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 laid | nsubj |
| 51 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 laid | aux:pass |
| 52 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 wrong | advcl |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 grave | case |
| 54 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 laid | obl |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 spake | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | gerund | of your little ones and Sweet sister | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not fear in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | not prosper in a quote | infinitive | God | brother | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wrong a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | brother | your children | dear property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | lay in a quote | present · passive | you | grave | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination |
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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