Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 165

The mother said to her husband "You could not have saved me from the whale but for the little cowboy; on that account I don't grudge him my daughter."

Who acts: mother, husband · What happens: say, not save, not grudge · To what, where: husband, mother, cowboy, account · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 husband	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 saved	punct
8	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 saved	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 saved	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 saved	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 saved	aux
12	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 saved	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 whale	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 whale	det
16	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saved	obl
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 cowboy	cc
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 cowboy	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cowboy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cowboy	amod
21	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 whale	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 grudge	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 account	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 account	det
25	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grudge	obl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 grudge	nsubj
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 grudge	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 grudge	advmod
29	grudge	grudge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grudge	obj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 daughter	nmod:poss
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grudge	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 grudge	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 grudge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother		mother's husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not save in a quote	could · perfect	mother's husband = husband	the mother = mother			from the whale but the little cowboy	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from whale=Source
3	not grudge in a quote	present · do-support	the mother = mother	cowboy		that account		tree rules

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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