English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 20

“Now,” said the master, “I will give you your wage;” and he presented him with a table, telling him he had but to say, “Table, be covered,” and at once it would be spread with lots to eat and drink.

Who acts: master, joiner · What happens: say, give, present, tell, have, cover · To what, where: wage, you, father, joiner, Table · 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 (master, 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 master	det
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wage	nmod:poss
15	wage	wage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 presented	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 presented	nsubj
20	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 presented	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 presented	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 telling	punct
26	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 presented	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 telling	iobj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 telling	ccomp
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 say	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 say	mark
32	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Table	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 Table	punct
35	Table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 say	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 covered	punct
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 covered	aux:pass
38	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 say	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 covered	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 covered	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 spread	cc
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 once	case
43	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	47 spread	obl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 spread	nsubj:pass
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 spread	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 spread	aux:pass
47	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 covered	conj
48	with	with	ADP	_	49 lots	case
49	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 spread	obl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 eat	mark
51	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 spread	advcl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 drink	cc
53	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 eat	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the master			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	future	the master = master	your wage	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wage=Theme
3	present	past	joiner		father		with a table	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with table=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	joiner not said here		joiner			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have	past	joiner					tree rules
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	joiner not said here	Table				tree rules
7	cover in a quote	infinitive · passive						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»
8	spread	would · passive		table			with lots	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: subject=Theme at once=Destination
9	eat	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	drink	infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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