Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 77

"How could I?" said he; "he always took care to keep his distance."

Who acts: husband · What happens: say, take, keep · To what, where: care, distance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	_	3 could	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 could	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 could	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 could	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 could	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 took	advmod
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 took	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 distance	nmod:poss
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	take in a quote	past	husband	care	always property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	husband not said here	husband's distance		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme

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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