More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 17

Pity that "Goldy" did not tell the story himself, as he had probably heard it in Ireland, where Kennedy gives a poor version in his _Fireside Stories_.

Who acts: Pity, Kennedy · What happens: not tell, hear, give · To what, where: that, Goldy, Buck, Ireland, poor version, Fireside Stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pity, Kennedy), 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	Pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 tell	obj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Goldy	punct
4	Goldy	Goldy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Goldy	punct
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 tell	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 heard	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
16	probably	probably	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tell	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Ireland	case
20	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gives	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 gives	advmod
23	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 gives	nsubj
24	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 version	det
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 version	amod
27	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gives	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 Stories	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 Stories	nmod:poss
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 Stories	punct
31	Fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Stories	compound
32	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 version	nmod
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 gives	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Pity	that	Goldy			tree rules
2	hear	past · perfect	Pity	Buck		Ireland	probably property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	give	present	Kennedy	a poor version		version's Fireside Stories		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=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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