English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 11

“That I will,” says Dick, “I will to go work for you, if you will let me.”

Who acts: Dick, you · What happens: say, go, let · To what, where: work, Dick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, 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	_	7 says	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 will	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 will	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 will	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 will	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 will	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 let	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 let	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 let	aux
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Dick			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	future		work	for you	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location work=Theme
3	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	Dick		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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