Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 75

"Well," says the other, "the Danes is much better customers to me; but since you walked so far I won't refuse.

Who acts: Danes, you, I · What happens: say, be, walk, not refuse · To what, where: other, better customers, 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 (Danes, you, I), 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	_	5 says	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 customers	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 customers	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Danes	det
11	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 customers	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 customers	cop
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 better	advmod
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 customers	amod
15	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 says	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 customers	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 walked	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 walked	cc
20	since	since	SCONJ	_	22 walked	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 walked	nsubj
22	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 far	advmod
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 walked	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 refuse	nsubj
26	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 refuse	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 refuse	advmod
28	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 walked	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the other			tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	the Danes	better customers	me		tree rules
3	walk in a quote	past	you			far property	tree rules
4	not refuse in a quote	future	I				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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