English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 3

He was too much out of breath to beg pardon, but the woman was good-natured, and she said he seemed to be a likely lad, so she would take him to be her servant, and would pay him well.

Who acts: Jack, woman · What happens: be, beg, say, seem, take, pay · To what, where: breath, pardon, likely lad, Jack, servant · 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 (Jack, woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 much	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 breath	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 breath	case
7	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 much	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 beg	mark
9	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	advcl
10	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beg	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 natured	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 natured	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 natured	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 natured	cop
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 natured	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
18	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 much	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 natured	conj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	29 lad	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 lad	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 lad	det
28	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lad	amod
29	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 take	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	34 take	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 take	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 take	aux
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 take	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	39 servant	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 servant	cop
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 servant	nmod:poss
39	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 take	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 pay	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 pay	cc
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 pay	aux
43	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 take	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 pay	obj
45	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 pay	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jack			breath	much property	tree rules
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	pardon				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
3	is	past	the woman				natured property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	seem	past	Jack					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	a likely lad				tree rules
7	take	would	woman		Jack			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
8	is a	to-infinitive	woman not said here	woman's servant				tree rules
9	pay	would	woman not said here	Jack			well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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