More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 123

"Nay," said the horse, "I know nought of the stars in the sky, and I'm here to do the bidding of the Good Folk, and not my own will."

Who acts: horse · What happens: say, know, be, do, bid · To what, where: nought, bidding, Good Folk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nay	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
12	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 know	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 stars	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stars	det
15	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 nought	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sky	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sky	det
18	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stars	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 here	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 here	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 here	nsubj
22	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 here	cop
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 know	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 here	acl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bidding	det
27	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Folk	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Folk	det
30	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Folk	amod
31	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bidding	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 own	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 own	cc
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 own	advmod
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 own	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 own	aux
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the horse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	the horse = horse	nought		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nought=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	present	the horse = horse		here property	tree rules
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive		the bidding of the Good Folk		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
5	bid in a quote			the Good Folk		nom bidding «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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