Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 46
Never a word did he say, and he looked as pale as old snow.
Who acts: word · What happens: not say, look · 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 (word), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 say | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 pale | advmod |
| 12 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 looked | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 snow | case |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 snow | amod |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pale | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past | word | pale property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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