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title: If you'll work for me, you'll have a good place, the best food a man… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If you'll work for me, you'll have a good place, the best food a man could have to eat in this world, and a soft bed to lie on." Who acts: you, man, best food. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 12

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If you'll work for me, you'll have a good place, the best food a man could have to eat in this world, and a soft bed to lie on."

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**Who acts:** you, man, best food · **What happens:** work, have, eat, lie on · **To what, where:** good place, best food, world

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, best food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7885:19:12
# text = If you'll work for me, you'll have a good place, the best food a man could have to eat in this world, and a soft bed to lie on."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you |  |  |  |  | for me | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **have** | future | you | a good place |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | could | a man | the best food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the best food *not said here* |  |  | this world |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lie on** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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