Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 64

"If you want a crooked answer," said Patrick; "turn away or it'll be the worse for you."

Who acts: you, Patrick, answer · What happens: want, say, turn away, be · To what, where: crooked answer · 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, Patrick, answer), 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	_	4 want	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 want	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 answer	det
6	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answer	amod
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct
14	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 turn	advmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 worse	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 worse	nsubj
18	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 worse	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 worse	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 worse	det
21	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 turn	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 worse	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	a crooked answer		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Patrick			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn away in a quote	infinitive			away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	future	answer		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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