English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 37

He said: “Shame on the wit that helped you; but I have a worse job for you to-morrow.”

Who acts: giant, wit · What happens: say, help, have · To what, where: Shame, morrow, worse job · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, wit), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Shame	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 Shame	punct
5	Shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 wit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wit	det
8	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Shame	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 helped	nsubj
10	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wit	acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 helped	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 job	det
17	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 job	amod
18	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 morrow	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 to	punct
23	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	giant	Shame on the wit	morrow	for you	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to morrow=Recipient clause=Topic
2	help in a quote	past	the wit		morrow		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
3	have in a quote	present	giant	a worse job			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=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: «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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