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title: If it was the master, he should also pay double wages; if it was the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If it was the master, he should also pay double wages; if it was the servant, he should get no wages at all. " Who acts: agreement, eldest. 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 6

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If it was the master, he should also pay double wages; if it was the servant, he should get no wages at all. "

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**Who acts:** agreement, eldest · **What happens:** be, pay, get · **To what, where:** master, double wages, servant, wages, all

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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 (agreement, eldest), 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:pg7885:24:6
# text = If it was the master, he should also pay double wages; if it was the servant, he should get no wages at all. "
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | agreement | the master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | should | eldest *= eld* | double wages |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Asset |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | agreement | the servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | should | eldest *= eld* | no wages |  | all |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent wage=Theme at all=Asset |

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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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