Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 4
"Never say't twice, mother," says Tom--"here goes."
Who acts: you, Tom · What happens: not say't, say, be · To what, where: mother · 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 (you, Tom), 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 | _ | 3 say't | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 say't | advmod |
| 3 | say't | say't | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 say't | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say't | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say't | conj |
| 10 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 says | ccomp |
| 14 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 here | cop |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say't | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say't | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say't in a quote | imperative | you not said here | mother | twice property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | here 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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