Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 40
"I never refused you before," said the story-teller, "and I won't do so now."
Who acts: story teller · What happens: not refuse, say, not do · 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), 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 refused | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 refused | advmod |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 refused | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 refused | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 refused | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 refused | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 teller | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teller | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 story | punct |
| 13 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 18 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 do | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 now | advmod |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 do | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse in a quote | past | the story teller = teller | you | before property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the story teller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | future | the story teller = teller | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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