English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 29

“I cannot tell thee,” said the horse-herd, “but go on a little further and thou wilt come to the cow-herd, and he, maybe, can tell thee.”

Who acts: horse herd, thou, Childe · What happens: not tell, say, go, come, tell · To what, where: thee, cow herd · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse herd, thou, Childe), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 herd	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 herd	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 horse	punct
13	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 go	cc
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 further	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 little	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 further	obl
21	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 go	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 come	nsubj
24	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	30 herd	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 herd	det
28	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 herd	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 cow	punct
30	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tell	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 tell	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 he	punct
35	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	38 tell	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 maybe	punct
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	aux
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
39	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 tell	iobj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the horse herd = herd	thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the horse herd				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come in a quote	future	thou		the cow herd		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herd=Initial_Location
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	Childe	thee		maybe property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient

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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