More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 77

Well, as for a wife, I have no hankering after such; they're but bothersome bodies, and I have women folk at home as 'll mend my clouts; and for gold that's as may be, but for work, there, I can't abide work, and if thou 'lt give me a helpin' hand in it I'll thank--"

Who acts: I, words, thou, my · What happens: have, be, mend, not abide, lt, give · To what, where: hankering, bothersome bodies, women, clouts, work, hand

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, words, thou, my), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 wife	case
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 hankering	det
11	hankering	hankering	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 such	case
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 hankering	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 bodies	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bodies	nsubj
16	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 bodies	cop
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 bodies	cc
18	bothersome	bothersome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bodies	amod
19	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	conj
24	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
25	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 folk	nmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 mend	mark
29	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 mend	aux
30	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 have	advcl
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 clouts	nmod:poss
32	clouts	clout	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 mend	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	70 thank	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 thank	cc
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 gold	case
36	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 thank	obl
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	70 thank	obl
38	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 be	cop
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 be	mark
40	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 be	aux
41	be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 that	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 there	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 there	cc
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 work	case
45	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 there	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 work	punct
47	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	70 thank	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 abide	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 abide	nsubj
50	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 abide	aux
51	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 abide	advmod
52	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 there	parataxis
53	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 abide	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 give	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 give	cc
56	if	if	SCONJ	_	59 lt	mark
57	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	59 lt	nsubj
58	'	'	PUNCT	_	59 lt	punct
59	lt	lt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 give	advcl
60	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 abide	conj
61	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 give	iobj
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 helpin	det
63	helpin	helpin	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 hand	nmod:poss
64	'	's	PART	_	63 helpin	case
65	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 give	obj
66	in	in	ADP	_	67 it	case
67	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 give	obl
68	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	70 thank	nsubj
69	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 thank	aux
70	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	parataxis
71	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
72	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	no hankering			after such	as a wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hankering=Patient
2	is a	present	words = word	bothersome bodies					tree rules
3	have	present	I	women					tree rules
4	mend	future	I not said here	my clouts					tree rules
5	is	may · present						be property	tree rules
6	not abide	can	I	work					tree rules
7	lt a condition, not said to happen	past	thou						tree rules
8	give	infinitive	I not said here	a helpin's hand	me	work			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hand=Theme
9	thank speech: thank	future	I	that				for gold	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for gold=Attribute
10	clout		my						nom clout «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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