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title: Hand me out one pound thirteen and fourpence if you don't like me to… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hand me out one pound thirteen and fourpence if you don't like me to finish my job." Who acts: you, my. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 112

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Hand me out one pound thirteen and fourpence if you don't like me to finish my job."

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** hand out, not like, finish, job · **To what, where:** me, job

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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:pg7885:24:112
# text = Hand me out one pound thirteen and fourpence if you don't like me to finish my job."
1	Hand	hand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	thirteen	thirteen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fourpence	fourpence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand out** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | pound thirteen and fourpence *obl* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **finish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my job |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality job=Eventuality |
| 4 | **job** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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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