Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 6
If it was the master, he should also pay double wages; if it was the servant, he should get no wages at all. "
Who acts: agreement, eldest · What happens: be, pay, get · To what, where: master, double wages, servant, wages, all
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 (agreement, eldest), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 master | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 master | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 master | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 master | det |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pay | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pay | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 pay | aux |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 pay | advmod |
| 10 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wages | amod |
| 12 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pay | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 servant | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 servant | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 servant | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 servant | det |
| 18 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 servant | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pay | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 wages | det |
| 24 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pay | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | agreement | the master | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | should | eldest = eld | double wages | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | agreement | the servant | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | should | eldest = eld | no wages | all | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent wage=Theme at all=Asset |
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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