Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 23
Tell me a story, or it'll be the worse for you."
Who acts: you, story · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: story, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, story), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worse | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 worse | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worse | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 worse | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 worse | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 worse | det |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Tell | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 worse | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a story | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | future | story | for you; bad 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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