More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 85
And if the master gave him more work, he sat down, and the work did itself, the singeing irons, or the broom, or what not, set to, and with ne'er a hand put to it would get through in no time.
Who acts: master, Tom, work · What happens: give, sit down, do, singe, not set, put · To what, where: more work, Tom, singeing irons, 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 (master, Tom, work), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 gave | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 master | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sat | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 work | amod |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sat | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 did | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 work | det |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sat | conj |
| 18 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 did | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 irons | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 irons | det |
| 21 | singeing | singe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 irons | amod |
| 22 | irons | iron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sat | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 broom | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 broom | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 broom | det |
| 26 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 what | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 what | cc |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 sat | parataxis |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 set | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 not | punct |
| 32 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 what | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 set | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 get | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 get | cc |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 hand | case |
| 37 | ne'er | ne'er | ADP | _ | 39 hand | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 hand | det |
| 39 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 get | obl |
| 40 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 hand | acl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 put | obl |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 get | aux |
| 44 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sat | conj |
| 45 | through | through | ADV | _ | 44 get | advmod |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 time | case |
| 47 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 48 time | det |
| 48 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 get | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | past | the master | more work | Tom | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient work=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | Tom | the singeing irons | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the work | work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | singe | gerund | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not set | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | put | participle | a hand not said here | work | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | get through | would | Tom not said here | time | with a hand; through property | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=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: «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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