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title: Master, hand me over double wages, and come into the next room, and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Master, hand me over double wages, and come into the next room, and lay yourself out like a man that has some decency in him, till I take a strip of skin an inch broad from your shoulder to your hip." Who acts: you, man, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master, wi
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 135

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Master, hand me over double wages, and come into the next room, and lay yourself out like a man that has some decency in him, till I take a strip of skin an inch broad from your shoulder to your hip."

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**Who acts:** you, man, I · **What happens:** hand, come, lay out, have, take · **To what, where:** me, double wages, next room, yourself, decency, strip

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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, man, I), 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:pg7885:24:135
# text = Master, hand me over double wages, and come into the next room, and lay yourself out like a man that has some decency in him, till I take a strip of skin an inch broad from your shoulder to your hip."
1	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	hand	hand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	decency	decency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	broad	broad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	hip	hip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  | double wages |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the next room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  | like a man | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Result |
| 4 | **have** | present | a man | some decency |  |  |  | in Man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decency=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | present | I | a strip of skin |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Theme |

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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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