Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 3

And Macdonald had said to the tailor, that if he would make the trews by night in the church, he would get a handsome reward.

Who acts: Macdonald · What happens: say, make, get · To what, where: Macdonald, tailor, trews, handsome reward · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Macdonald), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	Macdonald	Macdonald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 tailor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tailor	det
7	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trews	det
15	trews	trew	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 church	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 church	det
20	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 night	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 reward	det
26	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 reward	amod
27	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Macdonald	the tailor		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to tailor=Recipient
2	make a condition, not said to happen	would	Macdonald	the trews		night	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trew=Product
3	get	would	Macdonald	a handsome reward			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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