More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 98

"What ails thee, my son?" said a voice by his side, "and what hast thou caught, that thou shouldst stain the Lord's Day with such foul language?"

Who acts: voice, thou, that · What happens: ail, say, have, catch, stain · To what, where: thee, Day · 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 (voice, thou, that), 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	_	3 ails	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 ails	nsubj
3	ails	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 ails	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thee	vocative
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ails	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 ails	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 voice	det
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 side	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 side	nmod:poss
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 voice	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hast	cc
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 hast	obj
20	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 caught	nsubj
22	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hast	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stain	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 stain	nsubj
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 stain	nsubj
26	shouldst	should	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	27 stain	aux
27	stain	stain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 caught	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Lord	det
29	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Day	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Lord	case
31	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 stain	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 language	case
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 language	amod
34	foul	foul	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 language	amod
35	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stain	obl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 hast	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 hast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ail in a quote	present		thee			vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient thou=Experiencer
2	say speech: ask	past	a voice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	a voice not said here				tree rules
4	catch in a quote	past	thou				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	stain in a quote	should	that		the Lord's Day	with such foul language	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent day=Destination with language=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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