Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 53

I knew that I should not get him by asking, and I was going to steal him."

Who acts: I · What happens: know, not get, ask, go, steal · To what, where: necessity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 asking	mark
10	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 get	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 going	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knew	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 steal	mark
17	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 going	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 steal	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	past	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not get	should	I	necessity	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	I not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past · progressive	I		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	steal	to-infinitive	I not said here	necessity	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

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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