More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 15

"That depends," says she, "if thou wants king's brains, or soldier's brains, or schoolmaster's brains, I dinna keep 'em."

Who acts: That, thou, rain · What happens: depend, say, want, dinna, keep · To what, where: brains, 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, thou, rain), 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	_	3 depends	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 depends	nsubj
3	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 depends	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 depends	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dinna	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dinna	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 dinna	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 wants	mark
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 wants	nsubj
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 dinna	advcl
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brains	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wants	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brains	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 brains	cc
18	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brains	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 soldier	case
20	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brains	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brains	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 brains	cc
23	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brains	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 schoolmaster	case
25	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brains	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wants	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 dinna	nsubj
28	dinna	dinna	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
29	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 dinna	xcomp
30	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 keep	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	depend in a quote	present	That		vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	thou	king's brains or soldier's brains or schoolmaster's brains	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brain=Theme
4	dinna in a quote	present	rain		tree rules
5	keep in a quote	infinitive	rain not said here	'em = they	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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