More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 72

"Oh, wait a bit," says she, "something may turn up, and it'll not matter if thou 'rt a fool, so long'st thou 'st got me to look after thee."

Who acts: something, it, long'st, me · What happens: wait, say, turn up, not matter, get, look · To what, where: bit, woman, thou, me · 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 (something, it, long'st, me), 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 wait	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 wait	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wait	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 says	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turn	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 turn	punct
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 turn	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 turn	aux
15	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 turn	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 matter	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 matter	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 matter	nsubj
20	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 matter	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 matter	advmod
22	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 turn	conj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 thou	mark
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 matter	obl
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 thou	punct
26	rt	rt	ADP	_	28 fool	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fool	det
28	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 matter	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 long'st	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 long'st	advmod
31	long'st	long'	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 got	nsubj
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 long'st	obj
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 long'st	punct
34	st	St	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 got	nsubj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 says	ccomp
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 got	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 look	mark
38	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 got	xcomp
39	after	after	ADP	_	40 thee	case
40	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 look	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	infinitive		a bit			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present		woman			tree rules
3	turn up in a quote	may	something				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not matter in a quote	future	it	thou		rt a fool	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	get in a quote	past	long'st	me			tree rules
6	look in a quote	to-infinitive	me not said here		after thee		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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