English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 31
“Not unless you can keep her,” replied the father.
Who acts: you, father · What happens: not keep, reply · To what, where: master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, father), 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 | _ | 6 keep | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 keep | advmod |
| 3 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | aux |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 father | det |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | master | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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