Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 99

Whether he ever lost his time learning them sciences, I'm not sure, but it's as sure as fate that his mother never more saw any want till the end of her days.

Who acts: Tom, time, I, it, mother · What happens: lose, learn, not be, be, not see · To what, where: Danes, want

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 (Tom, time, I, it), 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 lost	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 lost	advmod
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sure	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod:poss
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 time	acl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 learning	obj
9	sciences	science	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 learning	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 sure	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sure	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 sure	advmod
14	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 sure	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sure	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	cop
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 sure	advmod
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sure	parataxis
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 fate	case
22	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sure	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saw	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 saw	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 saw	advmod
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	ccomp
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 want	det
30	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saw	obj
31	till	till	ADP	_	33 end	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 end	det
33	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saw	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 days	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 days	nmod:poss
36	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 end	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Tom		ever; time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	gerund	Tom's time not said here	Danes = dane			tree rules
3	not is	present	I			sure property	tree rules
4	is	present	it			as fate; sure property	tree rules
5	not see	past	Tom's mother	any want	till the end of mother's days		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer want=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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