Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 163
Not help casting me off for the sake of a beggarly old--"
Who acts: you · What happens: not help, cast off · To what, where: me
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), 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 | 2 help | advmod |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | casting | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 help | xcomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 casting | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 casting | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sake | det |
| 8 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 casting | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 old | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 old | det |
| 11 | beggarly | beggarly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 old | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sake | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | imperative | you not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cast off not said to happen | gerund | you not said here | me | for the sake of a beggarly old | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Product for sake=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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