More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 42

"Now, by my faith," said he, "even as much wit as is in your two heads to stir up strife about a thing you have not."

Who acts: meal, you · What happens: say, be, stir up, not have · To what, where: strife, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meal, you), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 faith	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 faith	nmod:poss
6	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 faith	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 faith	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wit	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 wit	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wit	amod
16	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
17	as	as	ADP	_	22 heads	case
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 heads	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 heads	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 heads	nmod:poss
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 heads	nummod
22	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wit	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stir	mark
24	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	advcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 stir	compound:prt
26	strife	strife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stir	obj
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 thing	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thing	det
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stir	obl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 thing	acl:relcl
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 have	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	meal		now	by my faith	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present				as your two heads	tree rules
3	stir up in a quote	to-infinitive	meal not said here	strife		about a thing	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition strife=Patient
4	not have in a quote	present	you	a thing not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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