English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 5

Now before the farmer goes to market says he to his wife: “Here is ten pounds all in gold, take care of it till I come home.”

Who acts: farmer, I · What happens: go, say, be, take, come · To what, where: man, ten pounds, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 says	advmod
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 goes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 market	case
7	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 wife	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Here	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Here	punct
15	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 pounds	advmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pounds	cop
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 pounds	nummod
18	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 says	ccomp
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 gold	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 gold	case
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
24	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	obl
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 come	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
29	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 take	advcl
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the farmer					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present		man		now	to market; to man's wife	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present		ten pounds	here			tree rules
4	take in a quote	infinitive		care			of farmer	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location
5	come in a quote	present	I				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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