Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 15
You shall not; you shall not go, my son, though I never get fish any more." "
Who acts: You, I · What happens: not go, not get · To what, where: fish
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | advcl |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | any | any | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 get | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | shall | You | my son vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not get | present | I | fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |
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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