English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 47
“That won't do me no good if I do,” says she.
Who acts: That, I · What happens: not do, know, do, say · To what, where: me, Darter · 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 (That, I), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 says | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | iobj |
| 7 | no | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 no | xcomp |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 says | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | future | That | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | infinitive | That not said here | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Darter | 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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