--- title: "I'm satisfied," said Jack; "and if you stop me from doing a thing a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "I'm satisfied," said Jack; "and if you stop me from doing a thing after telling me to do it, you are to give me an additional month's wages." Who acts: Jack, you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/14/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Jack and His Master](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/) / 14 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 14 "I'm satisfied," said Jack; "and if you stop me from doing a thing after telling me to do it, you are to give me an additional month's wages." **Who acts:** Jack, you · **What happens:** be, say, stop, do, tell, give · **To what, where:** Jack, thing, wages · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Jack, 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:pg7885:24:14 # text = "I'm satisfied," said Jack; "and if you stop me from doing a thing after telling me to do it, you are to give me an additional month's wages." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 satisfied satisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 from from SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 after after SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 additional additional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 wages wage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Jack | | | | | satisfied *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jack | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | Jack | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector i=Eventuality | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | a thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | Jack | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a additional month's wages | Jack | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wage=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/15/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Master](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/)