More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 67
"Nay, that cannot be," quoth the shepherd; "I know not to write nor to read."
Who acts: you, pardon · What happens: be, know, not write, read · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pardon), 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 | _ | 10 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 be | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 be | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 be | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 be | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 quoth | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 quoth | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 quoth | punct |
| 10 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shepherd | det |
| 12 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quoth | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 quoth | conj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 write | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 write | mark |
| 19 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 know | ccomp |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 read | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 read | mark |
| 22 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 write | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 quoth | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | quoth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | your pardon = pardon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not write in a quote | to-infinitive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | read in a quote | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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