Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 105
Not one of you will ever see a poor day if I can help it."
Who acts: one, I · What happens: not see, help · To what, where: silver
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 see | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 help | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 help | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | future | one of you | ever; day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | help a condition, not said to happen | can | I | silver | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
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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