English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 31

“I can't tell thee,” said he, “but go on a little farther, and thou wilt come to the hen-wife, and she is sure to know.”

Who acts: Childe, thou, word · What happens: not tell, say, go, come, be, know · To what, where: thee · 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 (Childe, thou, word), 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	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	n't	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=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	_	14 go	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 farther	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 farther	obl
18	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 go	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 come	nsubj
22	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 wife	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wife	det
26	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wife	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 hen	punct
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sure	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sure	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sure	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sure	cop
33	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 know	mark
35	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sure	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	Childe	thee		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Childe			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		to the hen wife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location
5	is in a quote	present	word		sure property	tree rules
6	know in a quote	to-infinitive	word not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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