Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 8

Vexed enough were the poor mother and brothers; and the second eldest said on the spot he'd go and take service with the Gray Churl, and punish him by all the annoyance he'd give him till he'd make him say he was sorry for his agreement. "

Who acts: eldest, Gray · What happens: vex, be, say, go, take, punish · To what, where: Vexed poor mother, spot, service, Gray · 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, Gray), 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	Vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mother	amod
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Vexed	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brothers	cc
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mother	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 punish	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 punish	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 second	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 eldest	nsubj
13	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 punish	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 eldest	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 spot	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spot	det
17	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
19	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 spot	acl:relcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 take	cc
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	conj
23	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 Gray	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Gray	det
26	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 take	obl
27	Churl	Churl	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Gray	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 punish	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 punish	cc
30	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 punish	obj
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 annoyance	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 annoyance	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 annoyance	det
35	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 give	obl
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 give	nsubj
37	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 give	aux
38	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 punish	parataxis
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 give	iobj
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	43 make	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 make	nsubj
42	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 make	aux
43	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 give	advcl
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 make	obj
45	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 make	xcomp
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 sorry	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 sorry	cop
48	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 say	ccomp
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 agreement	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 agreement	nmod:poss
51	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sorry	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 punish	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 punish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	vex	participle					enough property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past		the Vexed poor mother and brothers				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	participle				the spot		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	go	would	eldest = eld	the spot not said here				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spot=Theme
5	take	infinitive	eldest = eld not said here	service			with the Gray	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
6	punish	infinitive	eldest	Gray				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	give	would	eldest = eld		Gray		by all annoyance	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	make	would	eldest = eld	Gray				tree rules
9	say speech: assert	infinitive	Gray not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	is	past	eldest = eld				for eldest's agreement; sorry property	tree rules
11	agree		eldest = eld					nom agreement «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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