--- title: I want neither, and as for your wife, don't think ill of her for wha… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I want neither, and as for your wife, don't think ill of her for what she did, she couldn't help it." Who acts: I, wife. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/160/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Story-teller At Fault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/) / 160 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 160 I want neither, and as for your wife, don't think ill of her for what she did, she couldn't help it." **Who acts:** I, wife · **What happens:** want, not think, do, not help · **To what, where:** fault This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:20:160 # text = I want neither, and as for your wife, don't think ill of her for what she did, she couldn't help it." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 neither neither ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 6 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 obl _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | I | | | | | neither *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | as your wife; ill *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** | past | wife | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **help** | could | wife | fault | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/159/) - next →: [sentence 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/161/) - ↑ back to [The Story-teller At Fault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/)