Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 33

"Now, mistress," said he, "I'll be earlier at my work to-morrow if I sleep comfortably on the sheltery side of a pile of dry peat on dry grass, and not be coming here and going back.

Who acts: mistress, my · What happens: say, be, sleep, not come, go back, work · To what, where: work, sheltery side · 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 (mistress, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mistress	punct
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mistress	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 mistress	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 he	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 earlier	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 earlier	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 earlier	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 earlier	cop
14	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 he	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 work	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 work	nmod:poss
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 earlier	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 morrow	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 to	punct
20	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 work	nmod
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 sleep	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 sleep	nsubj
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 earlier	advcl
24	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	23 sleep	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 side	det
27	sheltery	sheltery	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	compound
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sleep	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 pile	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pile	det
31	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 peat	case
33	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 peat	amod
34	peat	peat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pile	nmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 grass	case
36	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grass	amod
37	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 peat	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 coming	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 coming	cc
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 coming	advmod
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 coming	aux
42	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sleep	advcl
43	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 coming	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 going	cc
45	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 coming	conj
46	back	back	ADV	_	45 going	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mistress		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	future	mistress	my work to morrow		early property	tree rules
3	sleep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	mistress	the sheltery side of a pile of dry peat on dry grass		comfortably property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not come in a quote	infinitive · progressive	mistress not said here	here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go back in a quote	gerund	mistress not said here				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
6	work in a quote		my			to morrow	nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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