Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 131

Would you have me meddle with the bastes of any neighbour, who might put me in the Stone Jug for it?"

Who acts: you, me, neighbour · What happens: have, meddle, put · To what, where: me, Stone Jug

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, me, neighbour), 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	obj
5	meddle	meddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bastes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bastes	det
8	bastes	baste	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meddle	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 neighbour	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 neighbour	det
11	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bastes	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 put	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 put	aux
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 neighbour	acl:relcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 Jug	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Jug	det
19	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Jug	compound
20	Jug	Jug	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	would	you	me			tree rules
2	meddle	infinitive	me not said here			with the bastes of any neighbour	tree rules
3	put	might	any neighbour	me	the Stone Jug	for Jug	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in jug=Destination

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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