More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 12

"Work as thou will Thou 'lt never do well; Work as thou mayst Thou 'lt never gain grist; For harm and mischance and Yallery Brown Thou 'st let out thyself from under the stone."

Who acts: you, lt · What happens: not do, not gain, let out · To what, where: Work, grist, thyself, stone

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lt), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Work	punct
2	Work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
3	as	as	ADP	_	8 lt	case
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 lt	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lt	aux
6	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 lt	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 Thou	case
8	lt	lt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Work	nmod
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 let	advcl
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 do	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 Work	punct
13	Work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	19 lt	case
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 lt	nsubj
16	mayst	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	19 lt	aux
17	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 lt	nmod:poss
18	'	's	PART	_	17 Thou	case
19	lt	lt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 gain	advmod
21	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lt	acl:relcl
22	grist	grist	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gain	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct
24	For	for	ADP	_	25 harm	case
25	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 let	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 mischance	cc
27	mischance	mischance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 harm	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Yallery	cc
29	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 harm	conj
30	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Yallery	flat
31	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 Yallery	appos
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 Yallery	punct
33	st	St	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Yallery	flat
34	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 let	compound:prt
36	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	34 let	obj
37	from	from	ADP	_	40 stone	case
38	under	under	ADP	_	40 stone	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 stone	det
40	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 let	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	present	you not said here	Work as Thou's lt		as Thou's lt; Work obl; well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not gain in a quote	present	Thou's lt not said here	grist			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grist=Theme
3	let out in a quote	imperative	you not said here	thyself	the stone	for harm and mischance and Yallery	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thyself=Theme for harm=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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