More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 7

Ay, hinny, an' it's much handier than a lot o' yer gold and silver as 'd have kept me from sleeping o' nights thinking the neighbours were robbing me--an' it's a real good thing to have by you in a house, ye niver can tell what ye mightn't use it for, an' it'll sell--ay, for a real lot.

Who acts: astonishment, neighbours, hinny, ye · What happens: be, keep, sleep, think, rob, have · To what, where: me, real good thing, house, astonishment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonishment, neighbours, hinny, ye), 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	_	3 hinny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hinny	punct
3	hinny	hinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 tell	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 handier	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 handier	det
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 handier	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 handier	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 handier	cop
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 handier	advmod
10	handier	handy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 hinny	conj
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 lot	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lot	det
13	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 handier	obl
14	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	17 gold	case
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 gold	punct
16	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 gold	nmod:poss
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lot	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 silver	cc
19	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gold	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 kept	mark
21	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 kept	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 kept	aux
23	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 handier	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 kept	obj
25	from	from	SCONJ	_	26 sleeping	mark
26	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 kept	advcl
27	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	29 nights	case
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 nights	punct
29	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sleeping	obl
30	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sleeping	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 neighbours	det
32	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 robbing	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 robbing	aux
34	robbing	rob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 thinking	ccomp
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 robbing	obj
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 thing	punct
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 thing	det
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 thing	punct
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 thing	nsubj
40	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 thing	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 thing	det
42	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 thing	amod
43	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 thing	amod
44	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hinny	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 have	mark
46	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 thing	acl
47	by	by	ADP	_	48 you	case
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 have	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 house	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 house	det
51	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 have	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 niver	punct
53	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	54 niver	compound
54	niver	niver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hinny	conj
55	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 tell	aux
56	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
57	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	61 use	obj
58	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	61 use	nsubj
59	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 use	aux
60	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	61 use	advmod
61	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 tell	ccomp
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 use	obj
63	for	for	ADP	_	61 use	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 sell	punct
65	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 sell	det
66	'	'	PUNCT	_	69 sell	punct
67	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 sell	nsubj
68	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 sell	aux
69	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 tell	conj
70	--	--	PUNCT	_	71 ay	punct
71	ay	ay	INTJ	_	69 sell	discourse
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 ay	punct
73	for	for	ADP	_	76 lot	case
74	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	76 lot	det
75	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 lot	amod
76	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 sell	obl
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	56 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	astonishment				than a lot of yer's gold and silver; handy property	tree rules
2	keep	would · perfect	astonishment not said here	me				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	sleep	gerund	astonishment not said here			night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	gerund	astonishment not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	rob	past · progressive	the neighbours	me				vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source
6	is a	present	astonishment	a real good thing				tree rules
7	have	to-infinitive	hinny and a real good thing and ye niver not said here		a house		by you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	tell speech: assert	can	hinny and a real good thing and ye niver					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	not use	might	ye	astonishment				tree rules
10	sell	future	astonishment				for a real lot	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for lot=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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