Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 138

"Hang the fellow who began it all," said he; "and if I can't have a story, let me have peace."

Who acts: you, fellow, king · What happens: hang, begin, say, not have, let, have · To what, where: fellow, harper, story, king, peace · 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, fellow, king), 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	_	2 Hang	punct
2	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fellow	det
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hang	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fellow	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hang	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hang	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hang	advcl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Hang	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hang	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
18	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Hang	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 story	det
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Hang	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hang	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hang in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the fellow	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Patient
2	begin in a quote	past	the fellow	harper	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	king	a story	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
5	let in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	king	tree rules
6	have in a quote	infinitive	king not said here	peace	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient

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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