Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 128
"Never fear," added he to the story-teller, "thou shalt see all, and not a man shall see thee."
Who acts: you, thou, man · What happens: not fear, add, see, not see · To what, where: beggarman, all, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, man), 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 | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 fear | advmod |
| 3 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 added | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 added | punct |
| 6 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fear | parataxis |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 added | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 teller | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 teller | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 teller | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 story | punct |
| 12 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 added | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 added | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 see | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fear | conj |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fear in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | beggarman | to the story teller | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to teller=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | shall | thou | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not see in a quote | shall | a man | thee | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
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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