--- title: "Don't go to-day," said his master; "my wife bakes to-morrow, and sh… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Don't go to-day," said his master; "my wife bakes to-morrow, and she shall make thee a cake to take home to thy good woman." Who acts: master, wife. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan, 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/pg7885/26/16/) [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/) / [The Tale of Ivan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/) / 16 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 16 "Don't go to-day," said his master; "my wife bakes to-morrow, and she shall make thee a cake to take home to thy good woman." **Who acts:** master, wife · **What happens:** not go, say, bake, make, take · **To what, where:** thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, wife), 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:pg7885:26:16 # text = "Don't go to-day," said his master; "my wife bakes to-morrow, and she shall make thee a cake to take home to thy good woman." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 bakes bake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 26 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 obj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 31 home home ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | day | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ivan's master | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **bake** *in a quote* | present | my wife | | | | | to morrow *result* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to morrow=Result | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | shall | wife | thee | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset thou=Beneficiary cake=Product | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | | | | | to thy good woman *result*; home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to woman=Result | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/17/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of Ivan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/)