More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 68
"Well, then, four nobles a week thou shalt have for the ready wit.
Who acts: four nobles · What happens: have
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four nobles), 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 | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 have | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 nobles | nummod |
| 7 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | nsubj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 wit | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wit | det |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wit | amod |
| 16 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | four nobles | then; week | for the ready wit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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