More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 64
The next court you shall pay reverence to, but do naught nor say aught.
Who acts: next court · What happens: pay, do, say · To what, where: reverence, naught, aught · 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 (next court), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 court | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 court | amod |
| 3 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pay | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pay | aux |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pay | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reverence | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 pay | parataxis |
| 12 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 say | cc |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | conj |
| 15 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 14 say | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | shall | the next court | reverence | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Asset | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | naught | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | aught | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aught=Topic |
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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