Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 3

So says she to him next morning, "Tom, you thief, you never done any good yet, and you six foot high, and past nineteen;--take that rope and bring me a faggot from the wood."

Who acts: Enniscorth · What happens: say, thief, not do, take, bring · To what, where: woman, Enniscorth, any, rope, faggot, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enniscorth), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 says	advmod
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	obl
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 morning	amod
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Tom	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Tom	punct
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thief	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 thief	nsubj
13	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Tom	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 done	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 done	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 done	advmod
17	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 done	obj
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 any	amod
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 done	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 high	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 high	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 high	nsubj
24	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 foot	nummod
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 high	compound
26	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 done	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 nineteen	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 nineteen	cc
29	past	past	ADV	_	30 nineteen	advmod
30	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 done	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 rope	det
35	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bring	cc
37	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 take	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 bring	obj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 faggot	det
40	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bring	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 wood	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 wood	det
43	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bring	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		woman	Enniscorth		morning		tree rules
2	thief in a quote		Enniscorth						tree rules
3	not do in a quote	past	Enniscorth	any			yet	nineteen obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality
4	take in a quote	infinitive		that rope					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
5	bring in a quote	infinitive		a faggot	me	the wood			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination faggot=Theme

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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