Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 46
"Hand me out one pound thirteen and fourpence, if you please, sir."
Who acts: you · What happens: hand out, sir · To what, where: Jack
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), 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 | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 2 | Hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Hand | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 Hand | compound:prt |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thirteen | nummod |
| 6 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thirteen | compound |
| 7 | thirteen | thirteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hand | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fourpence | cc |
| 9 | fourpence | fourpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thirteen | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sir | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 sir | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 sir | nsubj |
| 13 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 15 sir | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sir | punct |
| 15 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hand | vocative |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand out in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Jack | one pound thirteen and fourpence obl:unmarked | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | sir a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | you | tree rules |
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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