The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 42
But I must tell you I engage my labourers without wages.
Who acts: I · What happens: tell, engage · To what, where: you, labourers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 engage | nsubj |
| 7 | engage | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 labourers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 engage | obj |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 wages | case |
| 11 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 engage | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | must | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | engage | present | I | my labourers | without wages | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labourer=Patient |
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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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