Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 67

Then he thought of his old master's cake that he was to eat when he was most joyful, and when he broke it, to and behold, inside it was his wages for the three years he had been with him.

Who acts: Ivan, cake · What happens: think, be, break · To what, where: cake, wages, three years · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, cake), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 thought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 cake	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 master	amod
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cake	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 master	case
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 eat	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 joyful	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 joyful	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 joyful	cop
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 joyful	advmod
19	joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eat	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 broke	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 broke	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 broke	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 broke	nsubj
24	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 broke	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 behold	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 behold	case
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 behold	cc
29	behold	behold	INTJ	_	24 broke	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wages	punct
31	inside	inside	ADP	_	35 wages	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wages	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 wages	cop
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wages	nmod:poss
35	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 broke	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 years	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 years	det
38	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 years	nummod
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 wages	nmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 him	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 him	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 him	cop
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 years	acl:relcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Ivan			then	of Ivan's old master's cake	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	past	Ivan				eat property	tree rules
3	is	past	Ivan				joyful property	tree rules
4	break	past	Ivan	cake				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
5	is	past	cake		Ivan's wages	year		tree rules
6	is	past · perfect	Ivan	the three years not said here			with Ivan	tree rules

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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