Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 14
Let not that put you in any trouble," said the son; "I will not oppose you." "
Who acts: you, son, I · What happens: let, not put, say, not oppose · To what, where: you, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son, I), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 put | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 trouble | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 trouble | det |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 oppose | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 oppose | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 oppose | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 oppose | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 oppose | advmod |
| 19 | oppose | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 oppose | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not put | infinitive | you not said here | you | any trouble | that property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in trouble=Destination | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not oppose | future | I | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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