English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 49

“Well,” says she, “that won't do no harm, if that don't do no good,” and she upped and told about the pies, and the skeins, and everything.

Who acts: that, Darter · What happens: say, not do, up, tell · To what, where: Darter, harm, good, skeins · 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, Darter), 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 says	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 do	nsubj
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 harm	det
14	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 do	mark
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 do	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 do	advmod
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 do	parataxis
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 good	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 do	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 upped	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 upped	nsubj
27	upped	up	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 upped	conj
30	about	about	ADP	_	32 pies	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pies	det
32	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 told	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 skeins	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 skeins	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 skeins	det
36	skeins	skein	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 upped	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 everything	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 everything	cc
39	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 upped	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		Darter		tree rules
2	not do in a quote	future	that	no harm		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
3	not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	that	no good		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
4	up	past	Darter	the skeins		tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	Darter not said here		about the pies	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about pie=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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