Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 12

If you'll work for me, you'll have a good place, the best food a man could have to eat in this world, and a soft bed to lie on."

Who acts: you, man, best food · What happens: work, have, eat, lie on · To what, where: good place, best food, world

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, best food), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 work	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 work	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 work	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 food	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 food	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 food	amod
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	appos
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 food	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 eat	mark
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bed	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bed	det
30	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bed	amod
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 lie	mark
33	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 bed	acl
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 lie	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work a condition, not said to happen	future	you			for me	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary
2	have	future	you	a good place			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
3	have	could	a man	the best food not said here			tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	the best food not said here		this world		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lie on	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «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: «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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