Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 160
I want neither, and as for your wife, don't think ill of her for what she did, she couldn't help it."
Who acts: I, wife · What happens: want, not think, do, not help · To what, where: fault
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 2 want | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 think | cc |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 9 wife | case |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 think | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 think | advmod |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 want | parataxis |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 think | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ill | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 ill | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 help | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 help | advmod |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 think | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 help | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | neither property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | infinitive · do-support | as your wife; ill property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past | wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not help | could | wife | fault | 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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