Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 144
"Now, neighbours," said Jack, "you mustn't think worse of me than I deserve.
Who acts: neighbours, you · What happens: say, not think, deserve · 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 (neighbours, you), 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 | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 neighbours | punct |
| 4 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 neighbours | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 neighbours | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 think | advmod |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 think | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 worse | obl |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 deserve | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 deserve | nsubj |
| 20 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 worse | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | neighbours | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other in a quote | must | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | deserve in a quote | present | neighbours = neighbour | 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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