Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 13

"Now, Jack," said the Gray Churl, "if you refuse to do anything you are able to do, you must lose a month's wages."

Who acts: Jack, you · What happens: say, refuse, not do, be, do, lose · To what, where: anything, wages · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jack, you), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Jack	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Jack	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Churl	det
9	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Churl	amod
10	Churl	Churl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 lose	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 refuse	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 refuse	nsubj
15	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 lose	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 refuse	xcomp
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 do	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 anything	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 refuse	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 lose	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lose	aux
27	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 month	det
29	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wages	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 month	case
31	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lose	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 lose	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jack		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	refuse a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not do in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
4	is in a quote	present	you			able property	tree rules
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lose in a quote	must	you	a month's wages			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Eventuality

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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