More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 21

"That's no for me to say," says she, "find out for thyself, my lad! if thou doesn't want to be a fool all thy days.

Who acts: me, Jest, thou · What happens: say, find out, not want, be · To what, where: fool · 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 (me, Jest, thou), 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 no	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 no	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 no	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 says	det
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 say	mark
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 find	compound:prt
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 thyself	case
18	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	15 find	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lad	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lad	nmod:poss
21	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	parataxis
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 lad	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 want	mark
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 want	nsubj
25	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 want	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 want	advmod
27	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 find	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	31 fool	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 fool	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fool	det
31	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 want	xcomp
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 days	det:predet
33	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 days	nmod:poss
34	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 want	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	me				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: express	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find out in a quote	infinitive	Jest			for thyself	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	thou		day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	thou not said here	a fool			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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