The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 129

‘Did I not tell thee that there is no luck in Sunday fishing?’ said Matte sulkily; and his wife was so frightened that she never even once thought of Ahti’s cows.

Who acts: I, luck, wife · What happens: do, not tell, be, say, not think · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, luck, wife), 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	_	2 Did	punct
2	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Did	ccomp
6	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 tell	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 is	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 luck	det
11	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 fishing	case
13	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fishing	compound
14	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 luck	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Did	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Did	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Matte	matte	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	xcomp
19	sulkily	sulkily	ADV	_	18 Matte	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 frightened	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 frightened	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 frightened	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 frightened	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 frightened	advmod
26	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 thought	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thought	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 thought	advmod
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 once	advmod
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 thought	advmod
32	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 frightened	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 cows	case
34	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 cows	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Ahti	case
36	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 thought	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past					tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	present	I	thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
3	be	present	no luck in Sunday fishing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past				matte property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	past	luck's wife			frightened property	tree rules
6	not think speech: other	participle	wife			of Ahti's cows; once property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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