Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 74

You said if I only kept Browney out of mischief, the rest would do no harm.

Who acts: You, I, rest · What happens: say, keep, do · To what, where: Browney, mischief, harm · 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 (You, I, rest), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 kept	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	Browney	Browney	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 mischief	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 mischief	case
10	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 harm	det
17	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	I	Browney	mischief	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent browney=Theme out mischief=Location
3	do	would	the rest	no harm		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

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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