Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 112
Hand me out one pound thirteen and fourpence if you don't like me to finish my job."
Who acts: you, my · What happens: hand out, not like, finish, job · To what, where: me, job
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | Hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Hand | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Hand | compound:prt |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pound | nummod |
| 5 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thirteen | compound |
| 6 | thirteen | thirteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hand | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fourpence | cc |
| 8 | fourpence | fourpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thirteen | conj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 like | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 like | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hand | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 like | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 finish | mark |
| 16 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 like | xcomp |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 job | nmod:poss |
| 18 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finish | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hand | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand out | imperative | you not said here | me | pound thirteen and fourpence obl | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | not like a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | finish not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | my job | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality job=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | job | my | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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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