More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 47

So he hummed and ha'ad and at last, "Come, my good man," said he, "you see what poor folk we are; how can we manage to pay you fifty pounds?

Who acts: council, you, we · What happens: hum, come, say, see, be, manage · To what, where: last, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (council, you, we), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 hummed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hummed	nsubj
3	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ha'ad	cc
5	ha'ad	ha'ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hummed	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Come	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 last	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Come	punct
11	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hummed	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 man	nmod:poss
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Come	vocative
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hummed	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hummed	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 see	obj
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 folk	amod
26	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 are	dislocated
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 are	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 what	cop
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 manage	punct
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 manage	advmod
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 manage	aux
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 manage	nsubj
33	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 see	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 pay	mark
35	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 manage	xcomp
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 pay	obj
37	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 pounds	nummod
38	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 pay	obj
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hum	past	council				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
2	come in a quote	infinitive	council not said here		last	my good man vocative	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	say speech: ask	past	council				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see in a quote	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a in a quote	present					tree rules
6	manage in a quote	can	we				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	pay in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	you			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pound=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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