English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 6

The old woman begins by saying to her son before leaving, “Well, well, my poor boy, if you want to go, it's better for you to go, and God be with you.”--(The old woman thought for the best when she said that.)--“But stop a bit before you go.

Who acts: old woman, son, God, woman, you · What happens: begin, say, leave, want, go, be · To what, where: son, that, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, son, God, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begins	nsubj
4	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 saying	mark
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 begins	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 son	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 leaving	mark
11	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saying	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 boy	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 boy	punct
14	Well	well	INTJ	_	20 boy	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Well	punct
16	well	well	INTJ	_	20 boy	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 well	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 boy	nmod:poss
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boy	amod
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaving	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 want	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 want	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 better	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 better	expl
29	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 better	cop
30	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 go	parataxis
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 go	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 go	nsubj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 better	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 you	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 you	cc
37	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 you	nsubj
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 you	cop
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 you	case
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 go	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	48 thought	punct
44	(	(	PUNCT	_	48 thought	punct
45	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 woman	det
46	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 woman	amod
47	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 thought	nsubj
48	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 want	parataxis
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 best	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 best	det
51	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	54 said	ccomp
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	54 said	advmod
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 said	nsubj
54	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 thought	ccomp
55	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 said	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 said	punct
57	)	)	PUNCT	_	54 said	punct
58	--	--	PUNCT	_	61 stop	punct
59	“	"	PUNCT	_	61 stop	punct
60	But	but	CCONJ	_	61 stop	cc
61	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 said	parataxis
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 bit	det
63	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 stop	obj
64	before	before	SCONJ	_	66 go	mark
65	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	66 go	nsubj
66	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 stop	advcl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin	present	the old woman				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the old woman not said here		woman's son		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic
3	leave	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	woman's son = son				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	woman's son = son not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is in a quote	present				good property	tree rules
7	go in a quote	to-infinitive	woman's son = son				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is in a quote	infinitive	God			with woman's son = son	tree rules
9	think speech: other	past	the old woman				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	say speech: assert	past	woman	that			tree rules
11	stop in a quote	infinitive		a bit			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bit=Eventuality
12	go in a quote	present	you				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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