Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 158

"For my carriage and my houses and my hounds," said the story-teller, "I thank you; but my wife and my money you may keep."

Who acts: story teller, wife · What happens: say, thank, keep · To what, where: you · 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 (story teller, wife), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	4 carriage	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 carriage	nmod:poss
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 houses	cc
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 houses	nmod:poss
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carriage	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hounds	cc
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hounds	nmod:poss
10	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 houses	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carriage	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 carriage	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 teller	det
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 teller	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 story	punct
17	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thank	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 thank	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 thank	nsubj
21	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 thank	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 keep	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 keep	cc
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keep	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 money	cc
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 money	nmod:poss
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wife	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 keep	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 keep	aux
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 keep	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the story teller		for my carriage and my houses and my hounds	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	the story teller = teller	you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	keep in a quote	may	my wife and my money			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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