More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 113

Ay, now, that's a change for the better; it'll be far less trouble to look after, and none so easy stolen; yon gold pieces would have been a sight of bother to keep 'em safe.

Who acts: that, treasure, yon gold pieces · What happens: be, look after, steal, keep · To what, where: change, less trouble, sight, 'em

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, treasure, yon gold pieces), 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	8 change	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ay	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 change	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 change	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 change	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 change	det
8	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 better	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 better	det
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 change	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 trouble	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 trouble	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 trouble	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 trouble	cop
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 less	advmod
17	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 trouble	amod
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 change	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 look	mark
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 trouble	acl
21	after	after	ADP	_	20 look	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 none	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 none	cc
24	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 change	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 easy	advmod
26	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 none	amod
27	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 easy	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 sight	punct
29	yon	yon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pieces	compound
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pieces	compound
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sight	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 sight	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 sight	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 sight	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sight	det
36	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 change	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 bother	case
38	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sight	nmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 keep	mark
40	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 sight	acl
41	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 keep	obj
42	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 keep	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 change	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a change and a sight	now	for the better	tree rules
2	is a	future	treasure	less trouble			tree rules
3	look after	to-infinitive	that not said here				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	steal	participle	that not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	would · perfect	yon gold pieces	a sight		of bother	tree rules
6	keep	to-infinitive	that not said here	'em = they		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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