English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 11

Well, as I was a-saying, the Brownie at Hilton Hall would play at mischief, but if the servants laid out for it a bowl of cream, or a knuckle cake spread with honey, it would clear away things for them, and make everything tidy in the kitchen.

Who acts: I, Brownie, servants, knuckle cake, cake · What happens: be, play, lay out, spread, clear away, make · To what, where: mischief, bowl, things, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Brownie, servants, knuckle cake), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 saying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 saying	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 saying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 saying	det
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 a	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Brownie	det
11	Brownie	Brownie	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 play	nsubj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 Hall	case
13	Hilton	Hilton	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Hall	compound
14	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Brownie	nmod
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 play	aux
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saying	ccomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 mischief	case
18	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 play	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laid	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 laid	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 laid	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 servants	det
23	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 laid	nsubj
24	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saying	ccomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 laid	compound:prt
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laid	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bowl	det
29	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laid	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 cream	case
31	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bowl	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 spread	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 spread	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cake	det
35	knuckle	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cake	compound
36	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spread	nsubj
37	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 laid	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 honey	case
39	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spread	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 clear	punct
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 clear	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 clear	aux
43	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saying	parataxis
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 clear	advmod
45	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 clear	obj
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 clear	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 make	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 make	cc
50	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	parataxis
51	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	50 make	obj
52	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 make	xcomp
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 kitchen	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 kitchen	det
55	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tidy	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	I			say property	tree rules
2	play	would	the Brownie at Hilton Hall		mischief		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lay out a condition, not said to happen	participle	the servants	a bowl of cream		for mischief	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bowl=Result for it=Beneficiary
4	spread	participle	a knuckle cake			with honey	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	clear away	would	cake	things		for servants = servant; away property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Product for they=Beneficiary
6	make	infinitive		everything		tidy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product

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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