Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 93

"Please, sir, hand me one pound thirteen and four pence before you sit down to your dinner.

Who acts: sir, you · What happens: hand, sit down · To what, where: Jack

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 (sir, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct
2	Please	please	INTJ	_	6 hand	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sir	punct
4	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sir	punct
6	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hand	obj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pound	nummod
9	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	obj
10	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pence	nummod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 four	cc
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 thirteen	conj
13	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hand	obj
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 sit	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 sit	nsubj
16	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hand	advcl
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sit	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 dinner	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dinner	nmod:poss
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sit	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand in a quote	infinitive	sir	Jack					tree rules
2	sit down in a quote	present	you					to your dinner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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