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title: See, Ivan," said he, "here's your wage; but if you will give it me b… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: See, Ivan," said he, "here's your wage; but if you will give it me back I'll give you a piece of advice instead." Who acts: you, Ivan, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 8

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See, Ivan," said he, "here's your wage; but if you will give it me back I'll give you a piece of advice instead."

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**Who acts:** you, Ivan, I · **What happens:** see, say, be, give back, give · **To what, where:** Ivan, master, me, piece, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Ivan, I), 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:pg7885:26:8
# text = See, Ivan," said he, "here's your wage; but if you will give it me back I'll give you a piece of advice instead."
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wage	wage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | Ivan |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ivan=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Ivan |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give back** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | master | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | future | I | a piece of advice | you |  |  | instead *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme |

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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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