English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 18
“You're a likely lad,” said the joiner; “serve me for a twelvemonths and a day and I will pay you well.'”
Who acts: You, joiner · What happens: be, say, serve, pay · To what, where: likely lad, joiner, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, joiner), 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 | _ | 6 lad | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 lad | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lad | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lad | det |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lad | amod |
| 6 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lad | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lad | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 joiner | det |
| 11 | joiner | joiner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 serve | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 serve | punct |
| 14 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 serve | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 twelvemonths | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 twelvemonths | det |
| 18 | twelvemonths | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 serve | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 day | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 twelvemonths | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pay | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 pay | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 pay | aux |
| 25 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 serve | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 pay | obj |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 pay | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a likely lad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the joiner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | serve in a quote | infinitive | the joiner = joiner | for a twelvemonths and a day | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme for twelvemonth=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | pay in a quote | future | the joiner = joiner | you | well property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset |
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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