Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 66
"No, no," says the princess; "I'd rather never be your wife than see you in that danger."
Who acts: princess · What happens: say, not be, see · To what, where: wife, you, danger · 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 (princess), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 13 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 14 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 20 see | cc |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 wife | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wife | cop |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rather | obl |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 rather | fixed |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 danger | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 danger | det |
| 24 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | infinitive | your wife | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | would | the princess = princess | you | that danger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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