--- title: And the man said: “Well, your honour, the fact is, I've five childre… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the man said: “Well, your honour, the fact is, I've five children already, and now a sixth's come, a little lass, and where to get the bread from to fill their mouths, that's more than I can say.” Who acts: man, that, your. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the R --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Fish and the Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/) / 7 # English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 7 And the man said: “Well, your honour, the fact is, I've five children already, and now a sixth's come, a little lass, and where to get the bread from to fill their mouths, that's more than I can say.” **Who acts:** man, that, your · **What happens:** say, get, fill, be, honour · **To what, where:** bread, mouths · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, that, your), 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:pg7439:41:7 # text = And the man said: “Well, your honour, the fact is, I've five children already, and now a sixth's come, a little lass, and where to get the bread from to fill their mouths, that's more than I can say.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 6 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Well well INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 18 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 already already ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sixth sixth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 come come NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 lass lass NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 47 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 47 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 obj _ _ 48 than than SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 49 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ” " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the bread | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus | | 3 | **fill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | honour's mouths | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | more *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | the man *= man* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **honour** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/8/) - ↑ back to [The Fish and the Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/)