Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 81
But the churl would rather than a great deal he had not hired him.
Who acts: Churl · What happens: not hire · To what, where: fear
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 (Churl), 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 | _ | 9 deal | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 churl | det |
| 3 | churl | churl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deal | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 deal | aux |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 9 deal | cc |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 rather | fixed |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deal | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deal | amod |
| 9 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hired | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hired | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 hired | advmod |
| 13 | hired | hire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 deal | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hired | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hire | past · perfect | Churl | fear | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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