Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 43

"Well, _I_ never!" that was all _they_ could say.

Who acts: that · What happens: not be

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	17 say	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	17 say	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 _	nsubj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 say	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 never	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 never	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 say	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 say	cop
12	all	all	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 they	punct
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	could · past	that					all, say property	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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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