English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 58
“Never more, carle,” quoth she, “will I come again to Spain.”
Who acts: Molly · What happens: come · To what, where: Spain
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molly), 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 carle | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 carle | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carle | punct |
| 5 | carle | carle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carle | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carle | punct |
| 8 | quoth | quoth | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 carle | parataxis |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Spain | case |
| 17 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carle | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | future | Molly | Spain | again | quoth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spain=Initial_Location |
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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