Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 14
"I'm satisfied," said Jack; "and if you stop me from doing a thing after telling me to do it, you are to give me an additional month's wages."
Who acts: Jack, you · What happens: be, say, stop, do, tell, give · To what, where: Jack, thing, 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 | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | cop |
| 4 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | conj |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 are | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 stop | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 are | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 stop | obj |
| 16 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 17 doing | mark |
| 17 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stop | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 doing | obj |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 telling | mark |
| 21 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 doing | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 telling | iobj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 telling | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stop | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 are | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 give | mark |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 are | xcomp |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 give | iobj |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 month | det |
| 33 | additional | additional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 month | amod |
| 34 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wages | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 month | case |
| 36 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 give | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Jack | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stop a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | Jack | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector i=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | gerund | you not said here | a thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | gerund | you not said here | Jack | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | does in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a additional month's wages | Jack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wage=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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