--- title: "Had I but had the wit yestreen That I have got to-day, I'd paid the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Had I but had the wit yestreen That I have got to-day, I'd paid the Fiend seven times his teind Ere you'd been won away." Who acts: Burd Janet, wit yestreen, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burd Janet, wit yestreen, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:29:88 # text = "Had I but had the wit yestreen That I have got to-day, I'd paid the Fiend seven times his teind Ere you'd been won away." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 wit wit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 yestreen yestreen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nsubj _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Fiend Fiend PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 teind teind VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 Ere Ere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 ccomp _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Burd Janet *= janet* *not said here* | the wit yestreen | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yestreen=Patient | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the wit yestreen | the wit yestreen *not said here* | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yestreen=Stimulus | | 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Burd Janet *= janet* | the Fiend | | | time | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiend=Asset | | 4 | **teind** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **win away** *in a quote* | would · passive | | Ere | | | | away *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/29/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/29/89/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/29/)