Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 11

All the poor mother could say didn't prevent Jack the Fool from starting to see if he was able to regulate the Gray Churl.

Who acts: poor mother, eldest · What happens: say, not prevent, start, see, be, regulate · To what, where: Jack, Gray Churl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor mother, eldest), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 mother	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prevent	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 prevent	advmod
9	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 prevent	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fool	det
12	Fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prevent	obj
13	from	from	SCONJ	_	14 starting	mark
14	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 prevent	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 starting	xcomp
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 able	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 able	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 able	cop
20	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 see	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 regulate	mark
22	regulate	regulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Churl	det
24	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Churl	amod
25	Churl	Churl	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 regulate	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	all poor mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not prevent	past · do-support		Jack		tree rules
3	start	gerund				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	eldest = eld		able property	tree rules
6	regulate	to-infinitive	eldest = eld not said here	the Gray Churl		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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