More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 24

Nothing--nothing," replied the dame; "but dinna tell your mother who spun the yarn."

Who acts: Nothing, mother · What happens: reply, tell, spin · To what, where: dame, yarn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, mother), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 replied	nsubj
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Nothing	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dame	det
8	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
12	dinna	dinna	X	Foreign=Yes	13 tell	dep
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 replied	parataxis
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 spun	nsubj
17	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mother	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 yarn	det
19	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spun	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	Nothing	the dame	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	your mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spin	past	your mother	the yarn	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yarn=Theme

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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