--- title: "Now, mistress," said he, "I'll be earlier at my work to-morrow if I… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Now, mistress," said he, "I'll be earlier at my work to-morrow if I sleep comfortably on the sheltery side of a pile of dry peat on dry grass, and not be coming here and going back. Who acts: mistress, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, my), 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:pg7885:24:33 # text = "Now, mistress," said he, "I'll be earlier at my work to-morrow if I sleep comfortably on the sheltery side of a pile of dry peat on dry grass, and not be coming here and going back. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ 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 0 root _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 14 earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 24 comfortably comfortably ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 sheltery sheltery NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 peat peat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux _ _ 42 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 43 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 conj _ _ 46 back back ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mistress | | | | now | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | mistress | | | my work to morrow | | early *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sleep** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | mistress | | | the sheltery side of a pile of dry peat on dry grass | | comfortably *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | infinitive · progressive | mistress *not said here* | | | here | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go back** *in a quote* | gerund | mistress *not said here* | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **work** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | to morrow | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/34/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Master](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/)