More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 102
But the stranger shook his head, and said, "It bodes no good to thee or thine to bring such a monster to shore.
Who acts: stranger, head · What happens: shake, say, bode, bring · To what, where: head, monster, shore · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, head), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 shook | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bodes | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bodes | punct |
| 12 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bodes | nsubj |
| 13 | bodes | bode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 good | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bodes | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 thee | case |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 good | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 thine | cc |
| 19 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 good | csubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 bring | mark |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thine | advcl |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 monster | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 monster | det |
| 24 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 shore | case |
| 26 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the stranger | stranger's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the stranger not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bode in a quote | present | head | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | head not said here | such monster | shore | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent monster=Theme to shore=Destination |
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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