Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 142

"No!" said he, "I'd let you skin me from head to foot first."

Who acts: villain · What happens: say, let · To what, where: you, head · 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 (villain), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 let	aux
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	obj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 head	case
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 foot	case
18	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	obl
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 let	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	villain						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	would	villain	you		head		to foot; first property	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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