More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 9

I would have been thy friend and worked for thee if thou had been wise; but since thou bee'st no more than a born fool I'll give 'ee no more than a born fool's luck; and when all goes vicey-varsy, and everything agee--thou 'lt mind that it's Yallery Brown's doing though m'appen thou doesn't see him.

Who acts: I, thou, all, varsy, Yallery · What happens: be, work, bear, give, go, lt · To what, where: friend, ee, vicey varsy, m'appen

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 (I, thou, all, varsy), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 friend	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 friend	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 friend	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 friend	cop
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 worked	cc
8	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 friend	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 thee	case
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 worked	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 wise	mark
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 wise	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wise	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 wise	cop
15	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 worked	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 bee'st	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 bee'st	cc
18	since	since	ADP	_	20 bee'st	case
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 bee'st	nsubj
20	bee'st	bee'	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 worked	parataxis
21	no	no	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 bee'st	acl:relcl
23	than	than	ADP	_	26 fool	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fool	det
25	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fool	amod
26	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 more	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 give	nsubj
28	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 give	aux
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fool	acl:relcl
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 ee	punct
31	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obj
32	no	no	ADV	_	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 ee	amod
34	than	than	ADP	_	39 luck	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 fool	det
36	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 fool	amod
37	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 luck	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 fool	case
39	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 more	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 goes	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 goes	cc
42	when	when	SCONJ	_	44 goes	mark
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 goes	nsubj
44	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bee'st	conj
45	vicey	vicey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 varsy	amod
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 vicey	punct
47	varsy	varsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 goes	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 agee	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 agee	cc
50	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	51 agee	compound
51	agee	agee	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 goes	obl
52	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 mind	punct
53	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	56 mind	nsubj
54	'	'	PUNCT	_	56 mind	punct
55	lt	lt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 mind	amod
56	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 agee	appos
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 doing	mark
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 Yallery	nsubj
59	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 Yallery	cop
60	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 doing	nsubj
61	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Yallery	flat
62	's	's	PART	_	60 Yallery	case
63	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 mind	advcl
64	though	though	SCONJ	_	69 see	mark
65	m'appen	m'appen	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 see	obl
66	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	65 m'appen	obj
67	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 see	aux
68	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 see	advmod
69	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 doing	advcl
70	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 see	obj
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	would · perfect	I	thy friend		tree rules
2	work	past	I not said here		for thee	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for thou=Beneficiary
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	thou		wise property	tree rules
4	bear	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	give	future	I	ee		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ee=Theme
6	bear	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	go	present	all	vicey varsy	everything agee obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location varsy=Theme
8	lt	participle				tree rules
9	mind		thou			tree rules
10	is	present	varsy		's Yallery	tree rules
11	do	gerund	Yallery			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	not see	present · do-support	Yallery not said here	m'appen		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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