Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 24

"Do as you please," said he, "but what I tell you is the truth.

Who acts: heath · What happens: do, say, tell, be · To what, where: you, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heath), 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	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Do	obl
5	please	please	INTJ	_	2 Do	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	ccomp
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 truth	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 truth	det
19	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	infinitive				as you	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	heath				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	heath		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present		the truth			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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