English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 17

“That's easy enough,” said the henwife, and told them that a Brownie that's paid for its service, in aught that's not perishable, goes away at once.

Who acts: That, henwife · What happens: be, say, tell, pay, not be, go away · To what, where: man, Brownie, aught · 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 (That, henwife), 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	_	4 easy	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 easy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 easy	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 easy	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 easy	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 henwife	det
10	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 paid	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Brownie	det
17	Brownie	Brownie	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 paid	nsubj:pass
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 paid	nsubj:pass
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 paid	aux:pass
20	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 told	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 service	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 service	nmod:poss
23	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paid	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 perishable	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 aught	case
26	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	30 perishable	obl
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 perishable	nsubj
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 perishable	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 perishable	advmod
30	perishable	perishable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 paid	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 goes	punct
32	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 perishable	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 goes	advmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 once	case
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 goes	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That				easy, enough property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the henwife					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	the henwife not said here		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	pay	present · passive		a Brownie			for henwife's service	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for service=Theme
5	not is	present	that			aught	perishable property	tree rules
6	go away	present	that not said here				away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
7	service		henwife					nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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