Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 73
"Don't mind that; don't be vexed," said the henwife; "maybe it's the best thing that ever happened to you."
Who acts: you, henwife, throng, best thing · What happens: not mind, not vex, say, be, happen · To what, where: that, best thing, you · 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 (you, henwife, throng, best thing), 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 mind | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 mind | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 mind | advmod |
| 4 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 mind | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 vexed | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 vexed | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 vexed | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 vexed | aux:pass |
| 10 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mind | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vexed | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 vexed | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 vexed | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 henwife | det |
| 15 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 thing | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 thing | punct |
| 18 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 23 thing | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thing | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 thing | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 thing | amod |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mind | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 happened | nsubj |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 happened | advmod |
| 26 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 thing | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 happened | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | that | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not vex in a quote | infinitive · passive · do-support | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the henwife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | throng | the best thing | maybe property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | happen in a quote | past | the best thing | you | ever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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