Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 135
Master, hand me over double wages, and come into the next room, and lay yourself out like a man that has some decency in him, till I take a strip of skin an inch broad from your shoulder to your hip."
Who acts: you, man, I · What happens: hand, come, lay out, have, take · To what, where: me, double wages, next room, yourself, decency, strip
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, man, I), 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 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hand | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Master | punct |
| 3 | hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hand | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 wages | case |
| 6 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wages | amod |
| 7 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hand | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 hand | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 room | amod |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | conj |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 lay | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 lay | compound:prt |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | acl:relcl |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 decency | det |
| 26 | decency | decency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 has | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 has | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 take | punct |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 take | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 take | nsubj |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lay | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 strip | det |
| 34 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 skin | case |
| 36 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 strip | nmod |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 broad | det |
| 38 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broad | compound |
| 39 | broad | broad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 skin | appos |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 shoulder | case |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 42 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broad | nmod |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 hip | case |
| 44 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 hip | nmod:poss |
| 45 | hip | hip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 shoulder | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hand | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | imperative | you not said here | me | double wages | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | infinitive | you not said here | the next room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lay out | infinitive | you not said here | yourself | like a man | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Result | |||
| 4 | have | present | a man | some decency | in Man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decency=Patient | |||
| 5 | take | present | I | a strip of skin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Theme |
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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