English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 32

“No, mother,” said Florentine, “no dancers for me and no minstrels, for my dear wife, the mother of my seven, boys, is to be wed to-morrow, and sad's the day for me.”

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, w, be · To what, where: dancers, sad day · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 mother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dancers	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 dancers	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 dancers	det
12	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 dancers	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 minstrels	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 minstrels	det
17	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 me	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wife	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 wife	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wife	nmod:poss
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wife	amod
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mother	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mother	det
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wife	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 boys	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 boys	nmod:poss
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 boys	nummod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seven	punct
30	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 mother	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wed	punct
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 wed	aux:pass
33	to	to	PART	_	35 wed	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 wed	aux:pass
35	wed	w	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 wife	acl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 morrow	case
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 to	punct
38	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 day	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 day	cc
41	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 day	amod
42	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 day	cop
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 day	det
44	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl:unmarked
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 me	case
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 day	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mother	no dancers for me		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	w in a quote	present · passive	mother not said here		to morrow	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present		the sad day	for mother	tree rules

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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