English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 55

Not content with that, you changed it for bagpipes, on which you could not play, and which were not worth one-tenth of the money.

Who acts: you · What happens: not content, change, not play, not be · To what, where: name

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 content	advmod
2	content	content	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 content	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 changed	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 changed	nsubj
7	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 content	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 changed	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 bagpipes	case
10	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 changed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 play	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 play	obl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 play	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 play	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 play	advmod
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 content	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 worth	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 worth	cc
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 worth	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 worth	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 worth	advmod
23	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 play	conj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 tenth	nummod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
26	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 worth	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 money	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 money	det
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tenth	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not content	imperative	you not said here		with that	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	change	past	you	name	for bagpipes	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for bagpipe=Co-Theme
3	not play	could	you			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past			worth property	tree rules

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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