More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 88
"Had I but had the wit yestreen That I have got to-day, I'd paid the Fiend seven times his teind Ere you'd been won away."
Who acts: Burd Janet, wit yestreen, you · What happens: have, get, pay, teind, win away · To what, where: wit yestreen, Fiend, Ere · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burd Janet, wit yestreen, you), 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 Had | punct |
| 2 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 paid | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Had | obj |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 had | cc |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Had | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 yestreen | det |
| 7 | wit | wit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 yestreen | amod |
| 8 | yestreen | yestreen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 got | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | aux |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 yestreen | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Had | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 paid | nsubj |
| 18 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 paid | aux |
| 19 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 teind | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Fiend | det |
| 21 | Fiend | Fiend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 paid | obj |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 paid | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 teind | nmod:poss |
| 25 | teind | teind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 won | nsubj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 won | nsubj |
| 28 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 won | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 won | aux:pass |
| 30 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 teind | ccomp |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 won | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 teind | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 teind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Burd Janet = janet not said here | the wit yestreen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yestreen=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | the wit yestreen | the wit yestreen not said here | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yestreen=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | pay in a quote | past · perfect | Burd Janet = janet | the Fiend | time | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiend=Asset | |||
| 4 | teind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | win away in a quote | would · passive | Ere | away property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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