Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 37

"Maybe I wouldn't," said the story-teller.

Who acts: story teller · What happens: say · 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), 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	_	4 would	punct
2	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	4 would	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 would	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 would	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 would	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 would	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	8 said	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the story teller						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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