Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 67

But Redhead whispered and nudged Tom about how shabby it would look to reneague the adventure.

Who acts: Redhead, danger · What happens: whisper, nudge, look, reneague · To what, where: Tom, adventure

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 (Redhead, danger), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 whispered	cc
2	Redhead	Redhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 whispered	nsubj
3	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nudged	cc
5	nudged	nudge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whispered	conj
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nudged	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 shabby	case
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 shabby	advmod
9	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nudged	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 look	aux
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shabby	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 reneague	mark
14	reneague	reneague	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 look	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 adventure	det
16	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reneague	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	Redhead			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	nudge	past	Redhead not said here	Tom	shabby property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Theme
3	look	would	danger			tree rules
4	reneague	to-infinitive	danger not said here	the adventure		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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