Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 8

See, Ivan," said he, "here's your wage; but if you will give it me back I'll give you a piece of advice instead."

Who acts: you, Ivan, I · What happens: see, say, be, give back, give · To what, where: Ivan, master, me, piece, you · 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 (you, Ivan, I), 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	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Ivan	punct
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 See	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 See	advcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 here	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 he	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 here	punct
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	ccomp
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 here	cop
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wage	nmod:poss
13	wage	wage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 here	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 give	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 give	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	obj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
22	back	back	ADV	_	19 give	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	nsubj
24	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 give	aux
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 See	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 piece	det
28	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 advice	case
30	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 piece	nmod
31	instead	instead	ADV	_	25 give	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	Ivan			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ivan=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Ivan			here property	tree rules
4	give back a condition, not said to happen	future	you	master	me		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Theme
5	give	future	I	a piece of advice	you	instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=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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