English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 46
“Never you mind,” that said, “but tell me what you're a-crying for.”
Who acts: you, that · What happens: not mind, say, tell, cry · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 mind | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mind | nsubj |
| 4 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 crying | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 crying | nsubj |
| 16 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 crying | aux |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 crying | det |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 a | punct |
| 19 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 crying | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | present | you | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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