Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 25
Never mind yet, you clown, but you'll pay us another time for this.
Who acts: you · What happens: not mind, clown, pay · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 mind | advmod |
| 2 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 2 mind | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 clown | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 clown | nsubj |
| 6 | clown | clown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mind | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pay | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 pay | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pay | aux |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 mind | conj |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | iobj |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 this | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | yet | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | clown | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay | future | you | us | time | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Asset |
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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