Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 7

But the thief," says he, "gave me so little to eat, and kept me so hard at work, that flesh and blood couldn't stand it; and when he asked me once, when I was in a passion, if I was sorry for my bargain, I was mad enough to say I was, and here I am disabled for life."

Who acts: thief, work, blood, eldest, I, my · What happens: say, give, eat, keep, flesh, not stand · To what, where: eldest, little, me, work, thief, passion · 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 (thief, work, blood, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 says	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thief	det
3	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thief	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thief	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 little	advmod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gave	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 little	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 kept	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 hard	advmod
21	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 work	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 work	case
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flesh	punct
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 flesh	nsubj
26	flesh	flesh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 work	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stand	cc
28	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stand	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 stand	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 stand	advmod
31	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 flesh	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stand	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 mad	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 mad	cc
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 asked	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 asked	nsubj
37	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 mad	advcl
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 asked	iobj
39	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 asked	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 passion	punct
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 passion	advmod
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 passion	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 passion	cop
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 passion	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 passion	det
46	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 asked	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 sorry	punct
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 sorry	mark
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 sorry	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 sorry	cop
51	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 asked	conj
52	for	for	ADP	_	54 bargain	case
53	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 bargain	nmod:poss
54	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 sorry	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 asked	punct
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 mad	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 mad	cop
58	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	ccomp
59	enough	enough	ADV	_	58 mad	advmod
60	to	to	PART	_	61 say	mark
61	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 mad	advcl
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	66 here	nsubj
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 here	cop
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 here	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 here	cc
66	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	61 say	ccomp
67	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	69 disabled	nsubj
68	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 disabled	aux:pass
69	disabled	disable	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 here	parataxis
70	for	for	ADP	_	71 life	case
71	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 disabled	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	58 mad	punct
73	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 mad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the thief	eldest = eld				tree rules
2	give	past		little	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient little=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	past		me		work		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme at work=Location
5	flesh	present	work					tree rules
6	not stand	could	blood	thief				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	ask speech: ask	past	eldest = eld		me		once property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
8	is	past	I			a passion		tree rules
9	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I				for my bargain; sorry property	tree rules
10	is	past	I				enough, mad property	tree rules
11	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
12	is	past	I				here property	tree rules
13	disable	present · passive		I			for life	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
14	bargain		my					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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