Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 9

I have no clothes good enough to wear at church; and if my sisters were to see me there, they'd kill me for going out of the house."

Who acts: I, sisters, clothes · What happens: have, wear, see, kill, go out · To what, where: clothes, church, me, house

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 (I, sisters, clothes), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 clothes	det
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 have	obj
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clothes	amod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wear	mark
8	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 good	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 church	case
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wear	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 kill	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kill	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sisters	nmod:poss
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 see	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 kill	advcl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 see	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kill	nsubj
23	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 kill	aux
24	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 kill	obj
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 going	mark
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 kill	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 house	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 house	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 going	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	I	no clothes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
2	wear	to-infinitive	I not said here		church	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at church=Source
3	see a condition, not said to happen	past	my sisters	me	there	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	kill	would	clothes	me		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	go out	gerund	clothes not said here	the house		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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