Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 5

When he was rested and got something to eat, he told them how he got service with the Gray Churl of the Townland of Mischance, and that the agreement was, whoever would first say he was sorry for his bargain, should get an inch wide of the skin of his back, from shoulder to hips, taken off.

Who acts: eldest, whoever, agreement · What happens: rest, get, eat, tell, be, say · To what, where: eldest, something, sticks, service, agreement, inch · 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 (eldest, whoever, agreement), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 rested	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rested	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rested	aux:pass
4	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 told	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rested	conj
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 got	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 something	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rested	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 got	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	advcl
17	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 Churl	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Churl	det
20	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Churl	amod
21	Churl	Churl	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 got	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Townland	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Townland	det
24	Townland	Townland	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Churl	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Mischance	case
26	Mischance	mischance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Townland	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 taken	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 taken	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 get	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 agreement	det
31	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 get	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 agreement	cop
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
34	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 say	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 say	aux
36	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 say	advmod
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 agreement	acl:relcl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sorry	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 sorry	cop
40	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 say	ccomp
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 bargain	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 bargain	nmod:poss
43	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sorry	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 agreement	punct
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 get	aux
46	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 taken	advcl
47	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 inch	det
48	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 get	obj
49	wide	wide	ADV	_	52 skin	advmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 skin	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 skin	det
52	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 get	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 back	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 back	nmod:poss
55	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 skin	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 shoulder	punct
57	from	from	ADP	_	58 shoulder	case
58	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 get	obl
59	to	to	ADP	_	60 hips	case
60	hips	hip	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 shoulder	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 get	punct
62	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 told	conj
63	off	off	ADP	_	62 taken	compound:prt
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past · passive		eldest = eld				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	get	past		something				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	eat	to-infinitive		something not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	eldest = eld		sticks = stick			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	get	past	eldest = eld	service			with the Gray Churl of the Townland of Mischance	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer service=Stimulus
6	is a	past		the agreement				tree rules
7	say speech: assert	would	whoever				first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	eldest = eld				for eldest's bargain; sorry property	tree rules
9	get	should	the agreement	a inch		shoulder to hips	of the skin of eldest's back	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent inch=Theme from shoulder=Source
10	take off	participle	eldest = eld not said here					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	bargain		eldest = eld					nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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