--- title: "Oh, faith I will, sir, with a heart and a half;" and by the time th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Oh, faith I will, sir, with a heart and a half;" and by the time the farmer came out from his dinner, Jack had the roof better than it was before, for he made the boy give him new straw. Who acts: farmer, Jack, roof, boy. 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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 (farmer, Jack, roof, boy), 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:pg7885:24:97 # text = "Oh, faith I will, sir, with a heart and a half;" and by the time the farmer came out from his dinner, Jack had the roof better than it was before, for he made the boy give him new straw. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 out out ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ _ 35 than than SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 before before ADV RB _ 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 for for SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 ccomp _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 iobj _ _ 47 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | the farmer | the time *not said here* | | farmer's dinner | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient time=Result | | 2 | **have** | past | Jack | the roof | | | | good *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | roof | | | | | before *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | past | Jack | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | present | the boy | new straw | Jack | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient straw=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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/98/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Master](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/)